Returning skilled migrants transmit new cultural values that transform home societies

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Once my parents were dead, it was easier to make a relationship to the new Jamaica that emerged in the 1970s. This Jamaica was not where I had grown up. For one thing, it had become, culturally, a black society, a postslave, postcolonial society, whereas I had lived there at the end of the colonial era. So I could negotiate it as a “familiar stranger.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 766 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Initially, Westernization and modernization are closely linked, with the non-Western society absorbing substantial elements of Western culture and making slow progress toward modernization. As the pace of modernization increases, however, the rate of Westernization declines and the indigenous culture goes through a revival. Further modernization then alters the civilizational balance of power between the West and the non-Western society and strengthens commitment to the indigenous culture. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 202 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• 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; Skilled migrants carry cultural values and stimulate change in monocultural countries — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3879; Conversion to world religions enables migrants to escape kinship-bound trust for negotiated association. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2437 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Returning migrants are welcomed for capital but feared as change agents #complicates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3812
• Returning migrants must renegotiate a homeland that has itself been transformed #complicates (0.79) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 766
• Societies move from Westernization to cultural revival as modernization accelerates #complicates (0.74) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 202