2009/02/27 by Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, Clarisa Pérez‐Armendáriz, David Crow · 15 citations
Social Sciences · #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Diaspora, migration, transnational identity #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
paper · doi:10.1177/0010414009331733
International migrants are agents of democratic diffusion. They spread attitudes and behaviors absorbed in democratic host countries to their less democratic home countries by way of three processes: (a) migrant returns, (b) cross-border communication between migrants still abroad and their friends and family back home, and (c) migrant information networks in high-volume migration-producing communities. Marshaling data from an original June 2006 national survey in Mexico, the authors show that through one or another of these processes, migration alters the political participation and behavior of Mexicans living in Mexico.