Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees

How does extortion experienced during the migration journey affect the civic engagement of deported migrants returned to their home country? More broadly, how does extortion affect political participation? Little is known about either the political behavior of returnees or about how coercive economi...

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Main Authors:	Denny, Elaine K., Dow, David, Levy, Gabriella, Villamizar-Chaparro, Mateo
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	EXTORTION CIVIC ENGAGEMENT DEPORTEES ECONOMIC INSECURITY MOBILIZING EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP MOTIVATION TO CIVIC ACTION POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AFFECTS OF VICTIMIZATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099730304262235605/IDU02026f74207fd304e610a1160b8141ae76d28 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37396

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spelling	okr-10986-373962022-05-06T05:10:40Z Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees Denny, Elaine K. Dow, David Levy, Gabriella Villamizar-Chaparro, Mateo EXTORTION CIVIC ENGAGEMENT DEPORTEES ECONOMIC INSECURITY MOBILIZING EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP MOTIVATION TO CIVIC ACTION POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AFFECTS OF VICTIMIZATION How does extortion experienced during the migration journey affect the civic engagement of deported migrants returned to their home country? More broadly, how does extortion affect political participation? Little is known about either the political behavior of returnees or about how coercive economic shocks experienced during migration affect subsequent levels of political participation. More broadly, existing literature on how victimization affects political participation is inconclusive, particularly when combined with existing work on economic insecurity. Studying deported migrants and the quasi-random experience of extortion helps address the endogeneity that often confounds these analyses. This approach isolates the impact of extortion on political action from potentially confounding factors related to local security or corruption. Using a novel dataset concerning Guatemalan migrants returned to Guatemala by the U.S. government, this paper finds that extortion has a direct, positive relationship with multiple forms of civic action, and that, at least in this context, the mobilizing effects of economic hardship outweigh the potentially demobilizing effects of fear of crime. 2022-05-05T15:29:21Z 2022-05-05T15:29:21Z 2022-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099730304262235605/IDU02026f74207fd304e610a1160b8141ae76d28 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37396 English Policy Research Working Paper;10020 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Guatemala
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topic	EXTORTION CIVIC ENGAGEMENT DEPORTEES ECONOMIC INSECURITY MOBILIZING EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP MOTIVATION TO CIVIC ACTION POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AFFECTS OF VICTIMIZATION
spellingShingle	EXTORTION CIVIC ENGAGEMENT DEPORTEES ECONOMIC INSECURITY MOBILIZING EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP MOTIVATION TO CIVIC ACTION POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AFFECTS OF VICTIMIZATION Denny, Elaine K. Dow, David Levy, Gabriella Villamizar-Chaparro, Mateo Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees
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description	How does extortion experienced during the migration journey affect the civic engagement of deported migrants returned to their home country? More broadly, how does extortion affect political participation? Little is known about either the political behavior of returnees or about how coercive economic shocks experienced during migration affect subsequent levels of political participation. More broadly, existing literature on how victimization affects political participation is inconclusive, particularly when combined with existing work on economic insecurity. Studying deported migrants and the quasi-random experience of extortion helps address the endogeneity that often confounds these analyses. This approach isolates the impact of extortion on political action from potentially confounding factors related to local security or corruption. Using a novel dataset concerning Guatemalan migrants returned to Guatemala by the U.S. government, this paper finds that extortion has a direct, positive relationship with multiple forms of civic action, and that, at least in this context, the mobilizing effects of economic hardship outweigh the potentially demobilizing effects of fear of crime.
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author	Denny, Elaine K. Dow, David Levy, Gabriella Villamizar-Chaparro, Mateo
author_facet	Denny, Elaine K. Dow, David Levy, Gabriella Villamizar-Chaparro, Mateo
author_sort	Denny, Elaine K.
title	Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees
title_short	Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees
title_full	Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees
title_fullStr	Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees
title_full_unstemmed	Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees
title_sort	extortion and civic engagement among guatemalan deportees
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099730304262235605/IDU02026f74207fd304e610a1160b8141ae76d28 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37396
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Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees

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