eprintid: 10197589 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/75/89 datestamp: 2024-09-27 12:40:07 lastmod: 2024-09-27 12:40:07 status_changed: 2024-09-27 12:40:07 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Ozaltin, Duygu creators_name: Shakir, Farah creators_name: Loizides, Neophytos title: Why Do People Flee? Revisiting Forced Migration in Post-Saddam Baghdad ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F30 keywords: Refugees, Forced migration intentions, Internally displaced, Forced displacement note: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. abstract: When faced with political violence, why do some people choose to leave their homes while others stay? This article looks for motivations, particularly socioeconomic factors, behind decisions to stay or go. Drawing on new survey data from post-Saddam Baghdad, it confirms the general axiom that violent conflicts cause people to flee. However, the results are inconclusive in terms of the effect of socioeconomic circumstances as a major push or pull factor. Patriotism does not have an impact on migration intentions, and optimism about Iraq’s future does not suffice as a pull factor. Interestingly, people who intend to flee Iraq are better educated, contrary to the general far right media portrayal of refugees. date: 2020-06 date_type: published publisher: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-019-00674-z oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2321707 doi: 10.1007/s12134-019-00674-z lyricists_name: Ozaltin, Duygu lyricists_id: OZALT40 actors_name: Ozaltin, Duygu actors_id: OZALT40 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: MD140005 [British Academy]; MD140005 [British Academy] full_text_status: public publication: Journal of International Migration and Integration volume: 21 number: 2 pagerange: 587-610 pages: 24 issn: 1488-3473 citation: Ozaltin, Duygu; Shakir, Farah; Loizides, Neophytos; (2020) Why Do People Flee? Revisiting Forced Migration in Post-Saddam Baghdad. Journal of International Migration and Integration , 21 (2) pp. 587-610. 10.1007/s12134-019-00674-z <https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-019-00674-z>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197589/1/Ozaltin2019_Article_WhyDoPeopleFleeRevisitingForce.pdf