Between Territoriality, Identity, and Politics: The External Vote of Ecuadorians in Madrid

Echeverría, Gabriel

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“…Additionally, immigration size is cited as a reason for extending (or withholding) foreign residents' suffrage rights (e.g., Caramani and Grotz 2015) or external emigrant enfranchisement Victoria Finn 5 (Lafleur 2015). Yet, these reasons do not hold in the cases of offering additional migrant rights in Chile or Ecuador (Echeverría 2015a(Echeverría , 2015bEscobar 2015: 932).…”

Section: Why and Where Enfranchise Migrants? A Plethora Of Scenariosmentioning

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Enfranchising Foreign Residents in Democracy and Dictatorship in Chile

Finn

2020

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Fear, terror, and control are words used to discuss dictatorship, whereas inclusion, participation, and freedom parallel democracy. While survival of social and political rights is unusual in dictatorship, granting more voting rights is bizarre, especially at a time without elections. An early adopter of locallevel immigrant suffrage in 1925, Chile expanded foreign residents' rights to national-level elections in the 1980 Constitution. How and why did a military dictatorship expand immigrant voting rights? Building on existent literature and data, I conduct textual analysis of the 1974 Ortúzar Commission during constitutional revision, complemented with historical archival research in Chile. I argue that political co-optation, control, and the immigrant population size fail to explain immigrant voting rights' survival and extension through shifting (non)democratic regimes. This extreme case of immigrant enfranchisement in Chile reveals the importance of both path dependence and elites' divided opinions on optional versus obligatory voting for foreign residents versus nationals.

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Section: Why and Where Enfranchise Migrants? A Plethora Of Scenariosmentioning

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Enfranchising Foreign Residents in Democracy and Dictatorship in Chile

Finn

2020

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“…The magnitude of the phenomenon changed the social and political understanding of migration; those that once had been considered betrayers started to be considered heroes. The expatriate community was designated officially as the Fifth Region of the country (in addition to the traditional four) and its participation in domestic political life was strongly encouraged (G. Echeverría, 2014a).…”

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Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration

Echeverría¹

2020

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Between Territoriality, Identity, and Politics: The External Vote of Ecuadorians in Madrid

Cited by 2 publications

References 21 publications

Enfranchising Foreign Residents in Democracy and Dictatorship in Chile

Enfranchising Foreign Residents in Democracy and Dictatorship in Chile

Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration

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