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: 2024-09-18
Last updated by source: 2023-11-06


Categories:

Judicial Migration


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2025 Basic Time-series - 2025 OECD Cross-section - 2025 OECD Time-series - 2025 Standard Cross-section - 2025 Standard Time-series - 2025 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 192
Basic time-series: 195
Standard cross-section: 192
Standard time-series: 195
OECD cross-section: 32
OECD time-series: 32

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1981-2020
Basic time-series: 1981-2020
OECD time-series: 1981-2020

This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1981 to the year 2020