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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:14:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The role of droughts and religious cleavages in pastoralist conflict in Nigeria</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/336794</link>
      <description>Title: The role of droughts and religious cleavages in pastoralist conflict in Nigeria
Authors: Koopmans, Ruud; Meierrieks, Daniel; Tuki, Daniel
Abstract: This article studies the role of environmental and religious factors in the occurrence of pastoralist conflict in Nigeria using panel data at the 0.5 x 0.5ê grid cell level between 1997 and 2020. The empirical analysis provides robust evidence that the occurrence of droughts does not raise the likelihood of pastoralist conflict in those parts of the country where Muslim herders face a largely Muslim sedentary population. However, when there is a potential for interreligious tensions (i.e., in predominantly Christian parts of Nigeria), droughts significantly fuel pastoralist violence. That is, the adverse interaction between droughts and religious cleavages creates particularly potent conditions for the emergence of pastoralist conflict. This interpretation is supported by original survey data collected in 2021, which shows that Christians and Muslims disagree about the participants and causes of pastoralist conflict in Nigeria, again emphasizing the role of religious divides in this conflict.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The gendered cost of staying: How gender inequality increases female migration</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/337462</link>
      <description>Title: The gendered cost of staying: How gender inequality increases female migration
Authors: Pañeda-Fernández, Irene
Abstract: Women increasingly migrate as primary movers, yet how gender inequality shapes this process remains unclear due to methodological limitations. Competing theories predict that greater gender equality should facilitate women's migration by loosening norms and expanding women's aspirations, whereas greater inequality may increase women's incentives to leave by raising the costs of staying or triggering relative deprivation. I overcome prior shortcomings by using two sources of exogenous variation in gender inequality (matrilineal kinship and variation in female property rights from colonial common- versus civil-law systems) as well as rich original survey data. Across all designs, higher gender inequality predicts stronger migration intentions. At the individual level, original surveys from Senegal, The Gambia, and Nigeria show violent experiences of gender inequality predict higher intentions, whereas more economic experiences such as gender discrimination do not. An embedded experiment further shows that gender equality at destination matters more for women exposed to violence. These patterns extend beyond intentions: in a representative survey of West African immigrants in Germany, women from more gender-unequal cultural traditions and from weaker property-rights regimes are overrepresented. Overall, results suggest a mechanism based on changes in the cost of staying rather than relative deprivation.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Antisemitisme in islamitische landen en onder migranten en hun nakomelingen afkomstig uit deze landen</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321880</link>
      <description>Title: Antisemitisme in islamitische landen en onder migranten en hun nakomelingen afkomstig uit deze landen
Authors: Koopmans, Ruud
Abstract: De onderhavige notitie is oorspronkelijk geschreven als deskundigenrapport op verzoek van Knoops' Advocaten in het kader van de tegen de politicus Mona Keijzer ingediende aanklacht wegens groepsbelediging naar aanleiding van haar uitspraken in het televisieprogramma Sophie en Jeroen van 17 mei 2024. De aanklacht tegen Mona Keijzer werd op 11 juli 2024 door het Openbaar Ministerie geseponeerd. Het OM concludeerde dat de uitspraken van Mona Keijzer "op zichzelf beledigend" en "onnodig grievend" waren en dat zij zich daarmee "in beginsel schuldig heeft gemaakt aan groepsbelediging in de zin van artikel 137c Sr." De reden dat het OM toch tot seponering besloot over te gaan was gelegen in het feit dat zij deze uitspraken als politicus deed en de vrijheid van meningsuiting van politici in het kader van het publieke debat speciale bescherming geniet in het kader van artikel 10 van het Europees Verdrag voor de Rechten van de Mens. Tegen het sepotbesluit van het OM tekenden de klagers beroep aan bij het Gerechtshof Amsterdam. Het onderhavige rapport werd opgesteld op verzoek van de advocaat van mevr. Keijzer in het kader van deze zaak. Op 23 januari 2025 deed het Amsterdamse Gerechtshof uitspraak en wees het beklag tegen het sepotbesluit af. Anders dan het OM kwam het Gerechtshof tot de conclusie dat de uitspraken van mevr. Keijzer "niet onnodig grievend zijn" en daarmee ook niet strafbaar in de zin van artikel 137.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Do climate change and climate disasters at home shape return migration intentions? Evidence from a survey of West Africans in Germany</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/318376.3</link>
      <description>Title: Do climate change and climate disasters at home shape return migration intentions? Evidence from a survey of West Africans in Germany
Authors: Meierrieks, Daniel; Pañeda-Fernández, Irene
Abstract: This study explores the role of climate conditions in shaping return migration intentions among international migrants. Using original survey data of over 1,000 first-generation migrants from West Africa living in Germany, we correlate observational data on temperature increases in the respondents' home regions in West Africa to their return migration intentions. Moreover, by means of a survey experiment, we investigate how informational cues about climate disasters in the migrants' origin countries might influence their desire to return home. We find that observed climate change in the form of warming does not affect return migration intentions, and neither do informational cues about climate risks that are provided in the survey experiment. Moreover, we find that differences in migrants' socioeconomic status, education or attachment to their home countries do not moderate the influence of climate change and disasters on return intentions. By contrast, in the survey experiment economic factors are found to play a decisive role: migrants are more inclined to return if job prospects in their home country improve, whereas favorable employment in Germany reduces return intentions. This latter finding provides some evidence that economic motivations rather than environmental concerns prominently shape return migration decisions.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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