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    Drivers of Libyan students’ desire for emigration: a cross-sectional study

    Pourmehdi, Mansour ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6342-8248 and El Abani, Suaad (2023) Drivers of Libyan students’ desire for emigration: a cross-sectional study. Migration and Development, 12 (2). pp. 174-193. ISSN 2163-2324

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    Abstract

    The Libyan revolution, which overthrew Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, did not result in social, political and economic development for the people of Libya. For the youth who played a vital role in the old regime’s downfall, the revolution brought frustration, insecurity, unemployment, disruption of education, uncertainty and a lack of freedom. This article aims to develop an under-researched field of youth migration by exploring the factors that influence desire for emigration amongst the youth in Libya, by using a sample of 500 university students. Modelling the data through binary logistic regression, we found that gender, family, satisfaction with life, the outlook of the country and conflict and war were key factors influencing the Libyan students’ desire for emigration.

    Item Type: Article (Article)
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2023 11:11
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Additional Information: This is an accepted manuscript of an article which was published in final form in Migration and Development, by SAGE Publications. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference. For permission to reuse an article, please see https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/process-for-requesting-permission
    Divisions: Faculties > Arts and Humanities
    Subject terms: 1603 Demography
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/633476
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/21632324231205914
    ISSN 2163-2324
    e-ISSN 2163-2332

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