Assessing Emigrant Participation in Home Country Elections: The Case of Mexico’s 2006 Presidential Election

Lafleur, Jean‐Michel; Chelius, Leticia Calderón

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00682.x

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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.…”

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“…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).…”

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Ambivalent citizenship and extraterritorial voting among Colombians in London and Madrid

McIlwaine

Bermudez

2015

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In this article, we explore the nature of extraterritorial voting among Colombian migrants in the 2010 elections in London and Madrid. To address the neglected issue of why voter turnout from abroad has been so low, we take into account the views of voters and non-voters alike to show that, while the external vote privileges the professional and well educated, this does not mean that migrants are not interested in politics back home. Drawing on Bauman (1991), we conceptualize ambivalent citizenship as the paradoxical manner in which, through the external vote, states impose hegemonic notions of citizenship from above, which people embrace in an ambivalent manner from below. We show that the workings of the state make voting a difficult process; they create structural ambivalence for migrants who, even if they practise their citizenship in other ways, exercise individual ambivalence because they find it difficult to engage with a political system back home that they do not trust. The conceptualization of 'ambivalent citizenship' therefore encompasses the contradictory complexities inherent in the provision of external voting rights that actively privilege and exclude migrants in mutually constitutive ways.

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Ambivalent citizenship and extraterritorial voting among Colombians in London and Madrid

McIlwaine

Bermudez

2015

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“…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.…”

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La participación política de las comunidades migrantes en España. Nuevos y viejos dilemas

Pérez-Caramés

2018

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ResumenEste texto constituye una presentación del monográfico «La participación política de las comunidades migrantes en España: Nuevos y viejos dilemas». Junto con un encuadre teórico que recoge las principales contribuciones más recientes al debate en torno a la participación política de las comunidades migrantes, se introducen los principales aspectos de diseño teórico y metodológico del proyecto de investigación sobre asociacionismo migrante en Galicia, que está en el origen de esta publicación, y se presenta brevemente cada uno de los artículos que compone el volumen. Palabras clave: participación política; asociacionismo; inmigración; España; transnacionalismo Abstract. Political involvement of migrant communities in Spain: New and old dilemmasThis text is an introduction to the case study "Political Involvement of Migrant Communities in Spain. New and Old Dilemmas." In addition to a theoretical framework that gathers the most recent major contributions to the discussion on the political involvement of migrant communities, the main aspects of the theoretical and methodological design for the research project on migrant associationalism in Galicia are introduced, as this project is at the origin of this publication. Each of the articles that comprise the study is briefly introduced.

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“…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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Argentinos en el Exterior: desafíos actuales de su inclusión política en el país de origen

Margheritis

2017

Am. Lat. Hoy. Rev. Cienc. Soc.

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Fecha de recepción: 7 de octubre del 2016 Fecha de aceptación y versión final: 3 de julio del 2017 RESUMEN: Este trabajo analiza el aspecto político de la inclusión intermitente y selectiva en la política doméstica argentina de los ciudadanos residentes en el exterior. Se explica cómo evolucionaron las iniciativas estatales y qué factores influyen en el ejercicio del derecho al voto desde el exterior. Se muestra, también, cómo se originó y luego se estancó una nueva política hacia los emigrantes y en qué medida esto se traduce en una inclusión limitada hoy. Este estudio contribuye así a elucidar la dinámica política e institucional que moldea los procesos de reforma de la ciudadanía en uno de los casos menos estudiados de la literatura.Palabras clave: transnacionalismo político; voto exterior; Argentina; derechos políticos; emigración.ABSTRACT: This paper explores the politics of intermittent and selective inclusion of Argentines abroad in home politics. It accounts for franchise reform initiatives and explains which factors influenced Argentine citizens in the exercising of their right to vote from abroad. It traces the unfolding and stalemate of an incipient diaspora engagement policy to explain the limits to effective political inclusion of Argentine citizens living abroad today. Thus, it contributes to our understanding of the politics and institutional dynamics of the process of reforming the franchise and citizenship in one of the least explored examples within the literature.

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Assessing Emigrant Participation in Home Country Elections: The Case of Mexico’s 2006 Presidential Election

Cited by 52 publications

References 20 publications

Ambivalent citizenship and extraterritorial voting among Colombians in London and Madrid

Ambivalent citizenship and extraterritorial voting among Colombians in London and Madrid

La participación política de las comunidades migrantes en España. Nuevos y viejos dilemas

Argentinos en el Exterior: desafíos actuales de su inclusión política en el país de origen

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