(Re) Turn to the West: Migration and Democratic Quality in Central and Eastern Europe (Political Sociology)

（重新）转向西方：中欧和东欧的移民与民主质量（政治社会学）

• 批准号: 2266903
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2266903
• 关键词: Re; Turn; West; Migration; Democratic

My forthcoming thesis focuses on social remittances in CEE - the theory that migrants moving to more democratic Western societies absorb norms and behaviors from their hosts, which they then transfer to their origin societies by way of either return migration or cross-border communication with friends and family left behind (Levitt, 1998, 2001; Levitt and Lamba-Nieves, 2011). The analysis will proceed in two tightly connected steps - one looking at social remittance creation at destination and the absorption of democratic norms and behaviors by migrants abroad, and the other looking at the effects of migration experience and networks abroad in origin societies. While this is a key question in itself, I strongly believe that such work could very usefully be expanded into three ways, altogether generating a full and coherent understanding of the connections between migration and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. First, I would expand the micro-level analysis of the impact of emigration on political culture at origin, providing a macro-level test of the hypothesis that emigration depresses participation and the expression of political voice (Hirschman, 1978, 1993; Anelli and Peri, 2017). Second, I would take a step back and examine the twin questions of 'who leaves?' and 'who returns?' - with particular focus on the potential of reverse causality between migration and democratic quality, evaluating political determinants of migration along with more standard economic factors (Hirschman, 1978; Bygnes and Flipo, 2017). Third, I would move forward and ask the inevitable 'so what?', placing the explanatory focus on the rise of illiberalpopulism in the region and looking into the political culture (regime attitudes, political interest, participation) determinants of populist party support; establishing such a link would also imply an indirect effect of migration through its effects on political culture.

我即将发表的论文重点关注中东欧的社会汇款——这一理论认为，迁移到更民主的西方社会的移民吸收了东道国的规范和行为，然后他们通过回国移民或与留下的朋友和家人进行跨境交流的方式将这些规范和行为转移到原籍社会（Levitt，1998，2001；Levitt和Lamba-Nieves，2011）。分析将分两个紧密相连的步骤进行：第一步着眼于目的地社会汇款的创造以及海外移民对民主规范和行为的吸收，第二步着眼于海外移民经验和网络对原籍社会的影响。虽然这本身就是一个关键问题，但我坚信，此类工作可以非常有用地扩展到三种方式，从而共同对中欧和东欧的移民与民主之间的联系产生全面而连贯的理解。首先，我将扩展移民对原产地政治文化影响的微观层面分析，为移民抑制参与和政治声音表达的假设提供宏观层面的检验（Hirschman，1978，1993；Anelli和Peri，2017）。其次，我会退后一步，审视“谁离开？”的双重问题。和“谁回来了？” - 特别关注移民与民主质量之间反向因果关系的潜力，评估移民的政治决定因素以及更标准的经济因素（Hirschman，1978；Bygnes 和 Flipo，2017）。第三，我将继续提出不可避免的“那又怎样？”，将解释重点放在该地区非自由民粹主义的兴起，并研究民粹主义政党支持的政治文化（政权态度、政治利益、参与）决定因素；建立这种联系还意味着移民通过其对政治文化的影响而产生间接影响。