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Do Migrants Remit Democracy? International Migration, Political Beliefs, and Behavior in Mexico

The University of Texas

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: clarisa_pa{at}mail.utexas.edu.

	Abstract

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.

First published on February 27, 2009, doi:10.1177/0010414009331733

Comparative Political Studies 2010;43:119.

A more recent version of this article appeared on January 1, 2010


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