Returning migrants are welcomed for capital but feared as change agents

Evidence

Return migrants are often looked on favorably as they may bring with them capital, skills, and experience useful for economic development. Many countries have special schemes to make use of this “development potential.” However, some governments view returnees with suspicion since they may act as agents of cultural or political change. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3812

Categorization

• SEED: Possible essay angle: the doubled figure of the return migrant — emissary of development and vector of subversion — and how states try to have it both ways.
• XREF: connects to: Host reception of migrants’ food customs strengthened their return to homeland traditions. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 946