Willingness to help climate migrants: A survey experiment in the Korail slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Bangladesh faces a severe rural to urban migration challenge, which is accentuated by climate change and the Rohingya crisis. These migrants often reside in urban slums and struggle to access public services, which are already short in supply for existing slum dwellers. Given the inadequacy of governmental efforts, nonprofits have assumed responsibility for providing essential services such as housing, healthcare, and education. Would local slum-dwellers in Dhaka be willing to support such nonprofits financially? We deploy an in-person survey experiment with three frames (generic migrants, climate migrants, and religiously persecuted Rohingya migrants) to assess Dhaka slum-dwellers' willingness to support a humanitarian charity that provides healthcare services to migrants. Bangladesh is n

SUBMITTER: Castellano R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8062004 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature