Descripción del proyecto
Una iniciativa para integrar a los migrantes rurales en Mozambique
El desplazamiento de personas del campo a los centros urbanos en el África subsahariana podría generar un progreso en consonancia con los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible a medio plazo. Sin embargo, la migración del campo a la ciudad también puede causar trastornos y conflictos a corto plazo. Además, muchos Gobiernos autocráticos se oponen a la urbanización porque limita el control de los ciudadanos. Por tanto, la integración pacífica de los nuevos migrantes depende de los Gobiernos de las ciudades. En el proyecto QUELIMANE, financiado con fondos europeos, se llevará a cabo un ensayo aleatorizado con control en la ciudad mozambiqueña de Quelimane, que ha creado un programa innovador para facilitar la integración de los migrantes rurales. El equipo del proyecto estudiará cómo influye el programa en los medios de vida, las actitudes, los prejuicios, los prejuicios políticos y las pautas de migración futuras.
Objetivo
Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s fastest-urbanizing region. The movement of people from the countryside to denser cities will likely create progress toward some of the Sustainable Development Goals in the medium term, especially SDGs 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), 13 (Climate Action), 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) and 5 (Gender Equality). However, rural-urban migration can also cause disruption and conflict in the short term. Furthermore, many autocratic national governments oppose urbanization because it increases the cost and difficulty of controlling citizens through patronage and intimidation. Therefore, the responsibility often falls on city-level governments in the developing world to peacefully integrate new migrants with existing residents, and there is an urgent need for evidence on how to do so. This project will help meet this need in the context of the Mozambican city of Quelimane (pop. 350,000). Quelimane has created a program for rural migrant integration that includes job matching, training and education, financial services, and tax incentives. The government of Quelimane has invited me and my supervisor at NovaSBE, Pedro Vicente, to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to rigorously measure the causal impact the program, by selecting randomly which blocks in the city will be eligible for the program first. To measure both the direct effect of the program and its externalities, we will survey 500 long-term residents in treatment and control blocks as well as 1000 recent migrants and their still-rural connections. We plan to study not just how the program affects livelihoods, but attitudes, prejudices, political attribution, and further migration. Understanding how Quelimane can improve the urban integration of rural – and which parties have political incentives to do so – can help other local governments in Africa build institutions to meet similar challenges, a key objective of SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).
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H2020-WF-03-2020
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