Migrant Agency in an Institutional Context: The Akmola–Astana Migration System
Dufhues T. Buchenrieder G. Runschke D. Schmeidl S. Herzfeld T. Sagyndykova G.
2024Routledge
Europe - Asia Studies
2024#76Issue 3433 - 460 pp.
This article addresses one of the key challenges facing transitional and emerging economies: managing rural–urban migration to tackle rural decline and the associated rapid urbanisation. We introduce New Institutionalism as a novel conceptual framework to analyse the interactions between the institutional environment and migrant agency in a rural–urban system: the Akmola–Astana migration system in northern Kazakhstan. Our results suggest that the government might be more successful if it engages migrant agency and incentivises remaining in rural areas instead of designing policies to discourage rural–urban migration.
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External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysis, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
Universität der Bundeswehr, Department of Political and Social Sciences, RISK Research Center, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, Neubiberg, 85579, Germany
School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
Department of Economics, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysis
Universität der Bundeswehr
School of Social Sciences
Department of Economics
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