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Joseph Wright and Abel Escribà-Folch on Migration's Potential to Topple Dictatorships

Democracy Paradox

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Remittances and Democracy Around the World

Over the past 20 years, we've seen not only migration increase, but when i looked over the data, i saw that remittances have also grown dramatically. But this is also a period that we've seen democracy, iine, around the world. If i'm reading your theory at its most simplitic way, it would seem like a contradiction, that remittance should just naturally lead to an expansion and growth of democracy in many countries. I know that this isn't a policy book. You're writing about a phenomenon that exists. It has obvious policy implications. So i'd like give you an explanation, based on your research, how western governments approach their imigration policies forward

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