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Table 5 Plans to return and transnational political practices

From: The economic side of social remittances: how money and ideas circulate between Paris, Dakar, and New York

Interest in the politics of the country of origin

Plan to return

 All foreign-born migrants

Plan to return: No (%)

Yes (%)

Maybe (%)

Total (%)

  Very interested

9.7

16.9

18.3

15.5

  Somewhat interested

16

20.8

23

20.1

  Not too interested

32.4

31.2

32.5

31.7

  Not at all interested

41.8

30.6

26.2

32.4

  Total (N)

634,799

1,593,284

488,543

2,716,627

 Senegalese-born migrants

Plan to return: No (%)

Yes (%)

Maybe (%)

Total (%)

  Very interested

25.1

26.4

21.9

25.6

  Somewhat interested

13

19.6

31.6

20.8

  Not too interested

36.8

32.5

37.8

33.7

  Not at all interested

25.1

21.6

8.7

19.9

  Total (N)

5,526

41,814

8,660

56,001

Vote in the country of origin

Plan to return

 All foreign-born migrants

Plan to return: No (%)

Yes (%)

Maybe (%)

Total (%)

  No (%)

84.8

83.6

79.7

83.2

  Yes (%)

15.2

16.4

20.3

16.8

  Total (N)

634,799

1,593,284

488,54

2,716,627

 Senegalese migrants

Plan to return: No (%)

Yes (%)

Maybe (%)

Total (%)

  No (%)

85.6

75.5

70.6

75.7

  Yes (%)

14.4

24.5

29.4

24.3

  Total (N)

5,526

41,814

8,660

56,001

  1. Source: INED, Trajectoires et Origines (2008). Weighted estimates. Sample: foreign-born migrants aged 18 to 50