Every year, immigrants and immigrant diasporas send billions of dollars from the U.S. and other developed economies to the developing world. But cheap airfare and technological advancements are also allowing them to send back ideas about politics, governance, and identity. Kojo explores how immigrant communities are influencing political institutions in their countries of origin.
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2007-11-01/immigrants-diasporas-and-global-politics
Immigrants, Diasporas and Global Politics
Listen Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007 at 1:06 p.m. in Politics, SocietyGuests
Manuel Orozco
Director, Remittances and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue
Yossi Shain
Professor of Comparative Government and Diaspora Politics, Georgetown University
Sanjay Puri
Chairman, U.S. Indian Political Action Committee (USINPAC)
Carlos Gonzalez-Gutierrez
Executive Director, Institute of Mexicans Abroad (Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior), Government of Mexico
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