The inclusion paradox of enfranchising expats in Latin America
The inclusion paradox of enfranchising expats in Latin America
Enfranchising emigrants involves an implicit invitation to have a voice and increasing engagement in home politics, thus maintaining membership to the nation of origin active. However, in the Latin American Southern Cone (as well as in several other countries in the region), both state policies and expats’ responses have fallen short of making that invitation effective. What explains this inclusion paradox? Why enfranchising is expanding but effective political inclusion of citizens living abroad has not materialized? This paper addresses these questions for the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Conclusions highlight relatively unexplored explanatory factors and enhance our understanding of the links between migration policy innovation and political inclusion beyond borders in some of the least studied cases in the literature.
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Margheritis, Ana
af0b7f76-16ba-4f96-953d-7ffbd60b5d53
13 March 2017
Margheritis, Ana
af0b7f76-16ba-4f96-953d-7ffbd60b5d53
Margheritis, Ana
(2017)
The inclusion paradox of enfranchising expats in Latin America.
International Migration, 55 (2), .
(doi:10.1111/imig.12315).
Abstract
Enfranchising emigrants involves an implicit invitation to have a voice and increasing engagement in home politics, thus maintaining membership to the nation of origin active. However, in the Latin American Southern Cone (as well as in several other countries in the region), both state policies and expats’ responses have fallen short of making that invitation effective. What explains this inclusion paradox? Why enfranchising is expanding but effective political inclusion of citizens living abroad has not materialized? This paper addresses these questions for the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Conclusions highlight relatively unexplored explanatory factors and enhance our understanding of the links between migration policy innovation and political inclusion beyond borders in some of the least studied cases in the literature.
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Accepted/In Press date: 17 November 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 January 2017
Published date: 13 March 2017
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Politics & International Relations
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/403789
ISSN: 0020-7985
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