Replication Data for: \"Measuring Racial Bias in International Migration Flows\"

Are international migration flows racially biased? Despite widespread consensus that racism and xenophobia affect migration processes, no measure exists to provide systematic evidence on this score. In this research note, I construct such a measure— the migration deviation. Migration deviations are the difference between the observed migration between states, and the flow that we would predict based on a racially blind model that includes a wide variety of political and economic factors. Using this measure, I conduct a descriptive analysis and provide evidence that migrants from majority black states migrate far less than we would expect under a racially blind model. These results pave a new way for scholars to study international racial inequality.国际移民流动是否存在种族偏见？尽管学界已就种族主义与仇外心理会影响移民进程达成广泛共识，但目前尚无相关指标可就此提供系统性实证依据。在本研究短讯中，笔者构建了一项全新量化指标——移民偏差（Migration Deviation）。移民偏差指的是不同主权国家间实际观测到的移民流动规模，与基于种族中立模型预测得到的移民流动规模之间的差值；该种族中立模型纳入了多样的政治与经济影响因素。基于该指标，笔者开展了描述性分析，实证结果显示：来自黑人占多数国家的移民，其实际迁移规模远低于种族中立模型的预测值。本研究结果为学界探究国际种族不平等问题提供了全新的研究路径。