The enfranchisement of citizens abroad: variations and explanations

Lafleur, Jean‐Michel

doi:10.1080/13510347.2014.979163

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“…For example, despite the Colombian government's efforts to engage with its diaspora abroad, Colombians are less likely than other Latin American migrants to engage in transnational politics because of the widespread mistrust of and perceived corruption associated with Colombia's political culture (Guarnizo and Chaudhary 2014;. However, alternative studies find that efforts by some Latin American governments to cultivate and integrate their emigrants living abroad may modestly increase transnational political participation among educated immigrants with resources (Escobar 2015;Lafleur 2013Lafleur , 2015.…”

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“…thereby fostering transnational linkages between origin and receiving societies (Boccagni 2011;Boccagni et al 2015;Collyer 2014;Erdal and Oeppen 2013;Vertovec 2004;Waldinger 2015). 1 Consequently, existing scholarship documents how immigrants and diasporas engage from afar with the political landscapes of their homelands (Boccagni et al 2015;Koinova 2013;Lafleur 2013Lafleur , 2015. Within the transnationalism research lexicon, an important line of enquiry explores the notion of 'dual loyalties' and the relationship between immigrant integration and transnational political engagement (DeSipio 2006;Guarnizo et al 2003;Morales and Pilati 2014;Waldinger 2008, Waldinger andSoehl 2013).…”

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“…Hence, existing empirical and theoretical insights are inconclusive about the nature of the relationship between immigrant incorporation and transnational engagement. The main convergence between the two perspectives is a shared recognition that only a small minority of immigrants engage in transnational politics (Guarnizo et al 2003;Lafleur 2015;Waldinger 2008Waldinger , 2015. While both perspectives reveal important insights into the processes of immigrant integration and transnational politics, existing research suffers from three limitations.…”

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Voting here and there: political integration and transnational political engagement among immigrants in Europe

Chaudhary

2017

Global Networks

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In this article, I examine voting patterns in origin and receiving country national elections among immigrants in Europe. The existing scholarship on transnational political engagement offers two competing interpretations of the relationship between immigrant integration and transnational engagement, which I classify as the resocialization and complementarity perspectives. The resocialization perspective assumes that transnational political engagement gradually declines as immigrants become socialized into the new receiving society. Conversely, the complementarity perspective assumes that immigrant integration increases transnational political engagement. I test these competing perspectives with survey data collected between 2004 and 2008 for 12 different immigrant groups residing in seven European cities. The analysis examines how immigrant political and civic participation in receiving countries affect their proclivities to vote in homeland elections. I also analyse the effects of receiving and origin country contexts on immigrant voting behaviour in homeland elections. While my findings support both the resocialization and complementarity perspectives, they also highlight the ways in which a set of origin‐country contexts shape immigrant propensities to engage in transnational electoral politics. I observe a degree of complementarity among immigrants with resources who are motivated and eligible to participate in both receiving and origin‐country elections.

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Voting here and there: political integration and transnational political engagement among immigrants in Europe

Chaudhary

2017

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“…Lafleur argues diaspora enfranchisement occurred through democratization and the normalization of the right to vote externally. 35 There is a wide variation in terms of these diaspora voting practices, in terms of low and high turnout, and the marginal vs greater impact of these practices. While in some cases diaspora votes can determine electoral outcomes (for example, the Senegalese presidential elections in 2000), 36 Hutcheson and Arrighi argue these cases, though infamous, remain exceptional because, predominantly, the electoral impact of diaspora voters is low because of low turnout.…”

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The extra-territorial paradox of voting: the duty to vote in extra-territorial elections

Knott

2016

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The question of why individuals vote, the so-called paradox of voting, has been a crucial debate within political science, conceived deductively as an interaction between costs, benefits and, as some argue, duties. This article situates the question of why individuals vote, inductively, and within the context of extra-territorial elections focusing on how and why those who acquire citizenship kin-states participate in kin-state elections following citizenship acquisition, while continuing to reside outside of the kin-state. The article uses the case of newly-acquired Romanian citizens in Moldova, who have never nor intend to reside in Romania, to unpack whether, how and why individuals acquiring Romanian citizenship in Moldova vote in Romanian elections. The article uses an interpretive and inductive approach to explore, from the bottom-up, both the experiences of, and motivations for, political participation of extra-territorial citizens. The article finds, unexpectedly, how those acquiring Romanian citizenship in Moldova are motivated by a duty to participate. Overall, the article argues for a relational and reciprocal understanding of citizenship and voting, between the kin-state, facilitating citizenship as a right, and the citizen, performing their duty, implied by citizenship, to vote.

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“…electoral or constitutional reform, regionalization, etc.) (Lafleur, 2015). Domestic politics also matter when it comes to understand the heterogeneous forms of implementation of external voting.…”

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Geographies of external voting: the Tunisian elections abroad since the 2011 Uprising

Jaulin

2016

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This contribution draws on the developing literature on the participation of citizens' abroad in elections of their country of origin. It looks at Tunisia as a case study. Although it focuses on a single case study, this paper is comparative to the extent that it puts the case of Tunisia in perspective with other cases from the literature, and that it discusses the influence of different settings on the voter turnout and the voting behaviour of the Tunisians abroad. By doing so, it shows how Tunisian specificities contribute to academic discussions on the diffusion of new citizenship norms in the age of globalization and on the extent to which migration contributes to political change in labour sending countries. The paper first explores the adoption of external voting provisions by the former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as soon as 1988, and the extension of external voting rights after the 2011 Uprising. The paper further adopts a geographic, diachronic, and multi-level approach to analyse the voter turnout and the voting behaviour among the Tunisians abroad since 2011. Results first show that the adoption and implementation of external voting in Tunisia is closely articulated to domestic processes of political change, regardless of the type of regime (authoritarian or democratic). Furthermore, results show that the voting behaviour of the Tunisians abroad follows the same trends than their Tunisian counterparts, but that it varies significantly depending on their place of residence (country, city, and neighbourhood). Such observation challenges the idea according to which migrants socialised with liberal values in Western societies tend to promote such values in their homeland. In contrast, this paper argues that the voter turnout and the voting behaviour in external elections depend on pre-migration variables and on the local context in which migrants are embedded.

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The enfranchisement of citizens abroad: variations and explanations

Cited by 65 publications

References 25 publications

Voting here and there: political integration and transnational political engagement among immigrants in Europe

Voting here and there: political integration and transnational political engagement among immigrants in Europe

The extra-territorial paradox of voting: the duty to vote in extra-territorial elections

Geographies of external voting: the Tunisian elections abroad since the 2011 Uprising

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