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Does Emigration Affect Pro‐environmental Behaviour Back Home? A Long‐Term, Local‐Level Perspective

A. Ivlevs

Published 2020 in Kyklos (Basel)

ABSTRACT

This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on the seven successor states of former Yugoslavia, I explore the relationship between people’s present-day pro-environmental action and the local-level intensity of a major guestworker emigration wave that occurred four decades earlier. I find that more intense local-level emigration is associated with a lower likelihood of pro-environmental action; the instrumental variable analysis supports the causal nature of this relationship. This finding supports the conjecture that emigration contributes to greater consumerism at home and therefore reduces pro-environmental behaviour. At the same time, controlling for the intensity of local-level emigration, a higher proportion of women in the local migrant population is associated with a greater likelihood of pro-environmental action. As women are generally more likely to undertake pro-environmental behaviour as well as transfer new norms and practices across borders, this finding supports the hypothesis that migration contributes to a cross-border transmission of pro-environmental norms and practices.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2020

  • Venue

    Kyklos (Basel)

  • Publication date

    2020-08-06

  • Fields of study

    Political Science, Sociology, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1111/KYKL.12257
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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