El objeto empírico de este trabajo es la transición chilena desde la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet. Más concretamente, aspiro a desvelar la importancia que el nivel y la naturaleza de las movilizaciones sociales de presión y/o protesta tuvieron en la determinación tanto del acaecimiento como del carácter de tal cambio de régimen. Desde la crítica, el artículo se pretende complementario del modelo explicativo de los transitólogos de la contingencia.
El fenómeno gerontomigratorio es una realidad nacional cuya concreción demográfica a nivel local puede incidir en los resultados de los comicios en los que tienen derecho de sufragio. Este artículo aborda el compromiso cívico de los gerontoinmigrantes de retiro y analiza los factores (des)movilizadores de su voto, siendo las últimas elecciones municipales celebradas en España, de 2019, el caso de estudio. Aparte de los correspondientes datos facilitados por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y por el Ministerio del Interior, la investigación se nutre de los resultados de una encuesta multidisciplinar realizada durante 2020. Los gerontoinmigrantes de retiro se comportan políticamente en términos similares a como lo hacen los mayores en general. Al analizar los factores con capacidad explicativa del voto frente a la abstención, el Brexit ha aflorado como un fenómeno que afecta y diferencia a los británicos.
Ageing, European integration and human mobility beyond national frontiers are three intertwined processes shaping Spain as an international retirement place. Insofar as the quality of democracy has to do with citizens’ political involvement, the aim of this paper is to analyse to what extent foreign EU retirees residing in Spain are using their right to vote in the local elections. Interestingly, the last local elections, held in 2015, were part of a substantial change of the Spanish party system throughout the Great Recession. However, gerontomigrants’ mobilization has not been addressed up to this moment. This empirical study focuses on the characteristics and intensity in which foreign elderly citizens mobilized in the last Spanish local elections, with special attention to EU seniors. The previous elections, held in 2011, will be examined from a comparative perspective. Main data to be analysed will mostly be provided by the Spanish National Statistics Institute – both the electoral register and the population census. They will be complemented with the MIRES3i survey, which, in 2011, addressed 720 foreign European retirees (pensioners aged 50 years and over) of 16 nationalities (those of the EU-15 plus those coming from Norway and Switzerland) living in Spain.
This paper seeks to make a contribution to the empirical study of international retirement migration by exploring the meaning and the scope of residence, a phenomenon related to issues around integration and belonging. The study is based upon a national survey addressed to foreign European retirees (pensioners aged 50 years or over) of 16 nationalities living in Spain for more than three months per year. The article point out the extent to which residence is a multidimensional or complex and polysemic concept that transcends its merely administrative aspects. Residence is more than official records, and not all its dimensions develop with the same intensity. The research also reveals that certain public policies could promote both the presence and the consolidation as residents of European elderly movers.
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