Book Talk: Democratic Drain - The relationship between migration and democratic backsliding

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Book Talk: Democratic Drain - The relationship between migration and democratic backsliding

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Democratic Drain links two of the most compelling topics of our time: immigration and democracy. With a blend of in-depth interviews and data analysis across 149 countries, Justin Gest explores how global migration filters people with liberal democratic values out of authoritarian spaces, enabling democratic backsliding around the world. At a global scale, the correlation between migratory choices and political values introduces a new reason why authoritarian countries may have struggled to democratize in the decades since the end of the Cold War — a period when flows of international migrants have grown so significantly, populism has spread, and authoritarians’ resolve has steadily hardened. At a time when the world is increasingly sorting into democratic and undemocratic spaces, Gest’s timely and innovative analysis raises important political and policy questions about how democracies might compensate for the inadvertent effects of global human mobility.

Dr. Justin Gest is a Professor and the Director of the Public Policy Program at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. He is the award-winning author of seven books on immigration, democracy, and demographic change, and co-editor of the Oxford University Press book series 'Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship.' Over the last two decades, he has published his reporting or commentary with news publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, POLITICO, and served as a columnist for CNN Opinion and Newsweek.

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