Transnational Politics as Cultural Circulation: Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Migrant Political Participation on the Move

politics; transnational; migration; remittances; social remittances; cultural diffusion; external voting; droit de vote à distance; transnationalisme; remises sociales

Abstract :

[en] This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on transnational politics by bringing tools used by scholars of cultural diffusion and circulation into these debates. We build on research on social remittances and their potential to yield broader and deeper effects or to ‘scale up’ and ‘scale out.’ Based on a variety of empirical examples, we propose that processes such as circulation, portability, and contact, viewed through a transnational optic, help to nuance recent research on political transnationalism and its empirical indicators – including, most notably, external voting.

Research Center/Unit :

Centre d'Études de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations - CEDEM

Disciplines :

Sociology & social sciences

Author, co-author :

Boccagni, Paolo

Lafleur, Jean-Michel ; Université de Liège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Centre d'études de l'ethnicité et des migrations (CEDEM)

Levitt, Peggy

Language :

English

Title :

Transnational Politics as Cultural Circulation: Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Migrant Political Participation on the Move

Publication date :

2016

Journal title :

Mobilities

ISSN :

1745-0101

eISSN :

1745-011X

Publisher :

Routledge

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Pages :

444-463

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2014.1000023?journalCode=rmob20#

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