Seminário NOVAFRICA: A Transmissão Internacional de Valores Democráticos – Evidências da Diáspora Africana

Na quarta-feira, dia 3 de abril, pelas 15h30 (hora de Lisboa), na Sala D 005 do Campus de Carcavelos da Nova SBE, o Centro NOVAFRICA recebe Marco Manacorda da Queen Mary University of London para apresentar o seu trabalho sobre“A Transmissão Internacional de Valores Democráticos – Evidências da Diáspora Africana”

Resumo:
This paper investigates the effect of rising anti-immigrant sentiment in European democratic host countries on support for democracy in African migrants’ origin communities. We propose a novel methodology to estimate migration stocks from sub-national areas of origin to any possible country in the world based on Google searches for origin communities performed in destination countries. We use these data alongside measures of anti-immigrant sentiment at destination to study origin communities’ exposure to anti-immigrant sentiment. We show that a one standard deviation increase in exposure to anti-immigrant sentiment at destination leads to a decline of between 0.1-0.2 of a standard deviation in support for democracy at origin. We conclude that rising anti-immigrant sentiment in Western democracies has the potential to harm democratic progress in Africa.

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