The June 2025 issue of Democracy and Autocracy is dedicated to the theme “Immigration, Authoritarianism, and Democracy." Newsletter authors include Leydy Diossa-Jiménez (University of Michigan), Alexandra Filindra (University of Illinois Chicago), Katharina Natter (University of Leiden) and Rebecca Wai (University of Michigan). Volha Charnysh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania), and Adam Auerbach (Johns Hopkins University) exchange reviews of their recent books Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton University Press, 2023) and Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe, (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Rebecca Wai (University of Michigan) serves as guest editor.
