Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports
This paper studies whether undocumented immigrants change their crime-reporting behavior after receiving a regular migratory status. It exploits a natural experiment of a massive amnesty program that gave a regular migratory status to over 281,000...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/808711635942502374/Empowering-Migrants-Impacts-of-a-Migrant-s-Amnesty-on-Crime-Reports http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36484 |
| Summary: | This paper studies whether
undocumented immigrants change their crime-reporting
behavior after receiving a regular migratory status. It
exploits a natural experiment of a massive amnesty program
that gave a regular migratory status to over 281,000
undocumented Venezuelan immigrants in Colombia. The findings
suggest that following the amnesty there is an increase in
reporting of crimes by Venezuelan immigrants, not explained
by an increase in crime overall. The results are
particularly strong for reports of domestic violence and sex
crimes. Results are almost entirely driven by reports by
female Venezuelan immigrants, a vulnerable population,
suggesting that empowerment is an important mechanism
driving the behavior change. |
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