Ethnic Gatekeeping: How Autocrats Optimize Migrants in Domestic Factories

• In Event: Conflict and Borders: Global Migration and Humanitarian Crisis

Brief Overview

With a dataset on border orientation by Simmons and Kenwick (2022), I argue that autocrats increase the physical restrictions at its domestic border to prevent the migration of ethnic groups from empowering domestic groups with grievance.

Author

• Wonmin Hong, Louisiana State University