I'm looking for a questionnaire or survey the focuses on "reason for migration". I know there are questionnaires that include "reason for migration" items, but they tend to be focused on acculturation or some form of trauma.
Thank you Michael Uebel, I appreciate your quick response. I think the UN survey you provided is perfect for my intentions; however, I think it is only a portion of a larger instrument. I will investigate. Thank you very much.
Dear Patrick Jackson, I don't have an example of questionnaire but you can find the outcomes of focal groups combined with national statistics responses in this report on migration in Bolivia (starting from page 57). Depending of the context, age, gender and others you can find different reason sucha as work migration, education opportunities in Bolivia, but I think that in other places there are reasons like armed conflict or environment destruction. Hope this can be useful.
https://www.udape.gob.bo/portales_html/docsociales/MIGRA.pdf
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It is simply because migrants like the country/culture, and this is the justification for the integration where both migrants and host community reconcile themselves to living together. That is called "acculturation."
Thank you Hideo Muramatsu, I'm looking for a questionnaire or survey that addresses this question. I am hoping to get empirical evidence about the decision as opposed to anecdotal.
Dear Patrick, how will you handle the problem of honesty? - Some refugees do not tell the truth about their motives to migrate. Sometimes they even hide their nationality and pretend a certain kind of persecution.
To Holm Arno Leonhardt, thank you and excellent question. I had not thought of It and since I am exploring this situation having never experienced it, I am not aware of the possible pitfalls of participation. I recognize now, I need to ensure I show compassion and a sense of empathy in my questions about this topic. Thank you again.
In response to your question, while trying to solve this problem, I learned there is no instrument specifically designed to address this question, it is a point acknowledged by the US Census Bureau and the United Nations, two agencies, I would expect would be most interested in examining this phenomena. So, my intentions are to ask a couple questions in the demographic section of the questionnaire.
One way of offering a level of protection is by making the questionnaire anonymous. The respondents' origin is not as relevant to my study as the fact that they relocated to a new country they did not relocate and that those who migrated have been in the new location at least 12 months. Additionally, my concern are what push/pull factors influenced their decision to leave or not leave their place of origin. While the possibilities of factors are significant, I will limit the list to common factors listed in several studies on migration. I will categorize factors such as dissidence and the like to simply politics, violence and trafficking to safety to make the responses more palliate.
Thank you for your time and attention and excellent question. It was helpful.
Hi, Patrick,
There are only two reasons boiled down to for migration:
1 Migrants have negative feelings or relations to their home countries.
2 Migrants have positive feelings or relations to their host countries.
Therefore, the questionnaires can be simplified according to the above.
H. Muramatsu
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