Abstract The article discusses the relationship between migration and schooling in social violence context. Migration stimulates the development and alleviates poverty by providing capital for household human capital investments in the migrant’s home country. However, in the context of social violence, the positive effects of migration may be offset or disappear entirely. Our findings suggest that living in a migrant household increases both the probability of reaching non-compulsory levels of education and the likelihood of completing high school. However, we show that exposure to social violence can mitigate the positive impact of migration on schooling disappears for children in unsafe (violent) neighborhoods.[1] JEL Codes: O15, F22, I25