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Is International Labor Migration Good for Democratic Consolidation?

The recent surge of global interdependence created tremendous opportunities in the sphere of world economy. The global scale of trade and finance, which has grown unequally between and within different geographical regions, also meant greater mobility for laborers. Hence, does global labor migration from the developing world to capital-rich countries create a boon or a bane in adequately consolidating democratic rule in the Global South? Using the Philippine case, the argument made is that the massive exodus of Filipino workers for jobs abroad constitutes deep problems and contradictions in the national political economy of development, and the continuous reliance on labor diaspora undermines the life expectancy of the struggling democratic regime in the country.