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

University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, clarisa_pa{at}mail.utexas.edu

David Crow

University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

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.

Key Words: Mexico • international migration • democratic diffusion • public opinion • political behavior

This version was published on January 1, 2010

Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, 119-148 (2010)
DOI: 10.1177/0010414009331733


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