2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00682.x
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Assessing Emigrant Participation in Home Country Elections: The Case of Mexico’s 2006 Presidential Election

Abstract: How did Mexican migrants react to the opportunity to formally partici-pate for the first time in home country politics during the 2006 Presidential Election? In this paper, we attempt to explain the low level of migrant voter registration in home country elections. Grounding ourselves on the existing literature on voter turnout, we verify two hypotheses that focus (1) on the role of Mexican authorities, and (2) on the interest of migrants and migrant associations in home country politics. Building on the case … Show more

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“…For instance, 63 per cent of those who voted in Colombian elections also voted in host local elections (especially in London -80 per cent, compared with 38 per cent in Madrid); only 43 per cent of non-voters participated. Some 65 per cent of Colombian voters (77 per cent in London and 48 per cent in Madrid) voted in general elections; only 43 per cent of the non-voters voted in their host countries (see Lafleur and Calderón Chelius 2011). Still, that almost half of the Colombians who said they did not intend to exercise their external vote actually participated in host country elections is significant, especially in the UK where the community remains largely invisible in the eyes of the British political parties.…”
Section: Cross-border Ambivalence I: Participating In the 2010 Colombmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For instance, 63 per cent of those who voted in Colombian elections also voted in host local elections (especially in London -80 per cent, compared with 38 per cent in Madrid); only 43 per cent of non-voters participated. Some 65 per cent of Colombian voters (77 per cent in London and 48 per cent in Madrid) voted in general elections; only 43 per cent of the non-voters voted in their host countries (see Lafleur and Calderón Chelius 2011). Still, that almost half of the Colombians who said they did not intend to exercise their external vote actually participated in host country elections is significant, especially in the UK where the community remains largely invisible in the eyes of the British political parties.…”
Section: Cross-border Ambivalence I: Participating In the 2010 Colombmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Invariably, the state implements these rights in a 'top-down' manner that either targets elites or assumes homogeneity among diasporic populations (Ho © 2015 The Author(s) 2011). Although some scholars have begun to explore the nature of voter turnout in external elections, with many highlighting low or variable levels of engagement (Boccagni 2011;Escrivá et al 2010;Lafleur 2013;Lafleur and Calderón Chelius 2011), more research is needed to ascertain why migrants fail to vote even when they are formally enfranchised (Collyer 2013).…”
Section: Conceptualizing Transnational Citizenship Extraterritorial mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Entre las temáticas abordadas por los exámenes que parten de la perspectiva del transnacionalismo político destacan aquellos que analizan la implicación de los estados con su diáspora organizada (Bakewell, 2006), tanto a través de la garantía de derechos -principalmente regulando el sufragio a residentes en el exterior (Itzigsohn y Villacrés, 2008;Laffleur y Calderón, 2011)-como implementando programas de desarrollo y codesarrollo que implican a las comunidades migrantes como actores en este proceso (Orozco, 2002;Lacroix, 2009;Østergaard-Nielsen, 2011;Lacomba y Escala, 2013: Morales y Pilati, 2014.…”
Section: La Integración Política De Las Comunidades Migrantes: Entre unclassified
“…Sin embargo, no todos los países se sumaron a dicha tendencia general al mismo tiempo, por los mismos motivos y con la misma modalidad (Collyer 2014;Lafleur 2011Lafleur , 2013. En particular, la extensión del voto a los ciudadanos en el exterior ha seguido una trayectoria compleja y ha alcanzado diferentes grados de institucionalización en países del cono sur de América Latina como, por ejemplo, Uruguay, Brasil y Argentina (Escobar 2007;Margheritis 2017b).…”
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