Transformation of international migrants in head wind: Evidence from Tajikistan in the 2010s |
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Authors: | Satoshi Shimizutani Eiji Yamada |
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Institution: | JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, Tokyo, Japan |
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Abstract: | Tajikistan has relied on remittances by international migrants that have exceeded a quarter of annual GDP to date, despite a series of exogenous adverse events in the mid-2010s. We use a nationally representative panel dataset collected in 2013 and 2018 to explore the socio-economic characteristics of households with international migrants and migrants themselves. We provide several new findings. First, the prevalence of households with international migrants is 40%, with a substantial transition in migrant status during the research period. Second, households with international migrants are not poor, have Russian-speaking members, and are supported by an intense migration network. Third, younger, single, and more educated males comprise most of Tajikistan's international migrants. Fourth, households without Russian-speaking members or migration networks in 2013 had begun to send international migrants by 2018, while households in the richest group had exited from migration, suggesting s transition of the socio-economic composition of migrant-sending households during the mid-2010s. |
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Keywords: | migration remittance socio-economic characteristics social networks Tajikistan |
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