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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Main Authors:	Ibáñez, Ana María, Rozo, Sandra V., Bahar, Dany
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	MIGRATION CRIME AMNESTY EMPOWERMENT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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

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spelling	okr-10986-364842021-11-05T05:10:44Z Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports Ibáñez, Ana María Rozo, Sandra V. Bahar, Dany MIGRATION CRIME AMNESTY EMPOWERMENT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 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. 2021-11-04T18:21:38Z 2021-11-04T18:21:38Z 2021-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/808711635942502374/Empowering-Migrants-Impacts-of-a-Migrant-s-Amnesty-on-Crime-Reports http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36484 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9833 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Colombia Venezuela, Republica Bolivariana de
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spellingShingle	MIGRATION CRIME AMNESTY EMPOWERMENT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Ibáñez, Ana María Rozo, Sandra V. Bahar, Dany Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Ibáñez, Ana María Rozo, Sandra V. Bahar, Dany
author_facet	Ibáñez, Ana María Rozo, Sandra V. Bahar, Dany
author_sort	Ibáñez, Ana María
title	Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports
title_short	Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports
title_full	Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports
title_fullStr	Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports
title_full_unstemmed	Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports
title_sort	empowering migrants : impacts of a migrant’s amnesty on crime reports
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/808711635942502374/Empowering-Migrants-Impacts-of-a-Migrant-s-Amnesty-on-Crime-Reports http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36484
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