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The Role of Out-group Network in the Choice of Migration Destination: Evidence from Turkey

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  • Filiz Kunuroglu

    (Izmir Katip Çelebi University, Izmir, Turkey)

  • Ali Sina Önder

    (, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK)

Abstract

We analyse the association between cultural contact and international migration decision drawing on the inter-group contact hypothesis. Using data on Turkish migrant stock in 22 countries and immigration from these countries to Turkey between 2000 and 2015, we find a strong association between the Turkish community's size and migration flow of host country nationals to Turkey. Our results are robust to country-specific and year-specific effects as well as to exclusion of different channels of cultural contact. Our research brings a new perspective to the importance of networks in migration destination as most research focuses on the presence of in-group national community in the target country. Our findings contribute to the improvement of extant theories of international migration providing insight in the role of cultural contact with the out-group in the choice of migration destination.

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  • Filiz Kunuroglu & Ali Sina Önder, 2022. "The Role of Out-group Network in the Choice of Migration Destination: Evidence from Turkey," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 19(3), pages 253-260, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:19:y:2022:i:3:p:253-260
    DOI: https://doi.org/0.33182/ml.v19i3.1399
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