Expatriate protection enables intellectuals to denounce their home societies with impunity
Evidence
The blatant manner in which these native informers have demonized their own cultures and societies is made possible by the protection they enjoy when they relocate to the centers of Western European and North American power. For obvious reasons it would have been much too risky to produce such serviceable knowledge from Tehran, Baghdad, Beirut, Karachi, or Mogadishu. The phenomena of globalization in general and labor migration in particular have combined to create the conditio sine qua non for these comprador intellectuals. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 101