Variable: Freedom of Foreign Movement and Travel

QoG Code: (ciri_formov)


Dataset: The CIRIGHTS Data Project

Description:

Freedom of foreign movement is the freedom to leave and return to one’s country. There are countries that do not allow citizens to leave at all, or if they do leave, may risk losing their property or other assets. Some citizens, once they have left their country, and not allowed to return.

Some governments place restrictions of foreign movement only on certain groups of people such as opposition political leaders, ethnic minorities, religious leaders, women, human rights activists or monitors, and journalists.

Scoring Scheme:
Foreign movement and travel is:
(0) Severely Restricted
(1) Somewhat Restricted
(2) Unrestricted

Type of variable: Categorical

Downloaded by QoG on: 2025-12-02
Last updated by source: 2024-12-10


Categories:

Judicial Migration


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2026 Basic Time-series - 2026 OECD Cross-section - 2026 OECD Time-series - 2026 Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 193
Basic time-series: 196
Standard cross-section: 193
Standard time-series: 196
OECD cross-section: 32
OECD time-series: 32

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1981-2022
Basic time-series: 1981-2022
OECD time-series: 1981-2022

This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1981 to the year 2022