Courting Migrants

How States Make Diasporas and Diasporas Make States

Katrina Burgess (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-750179-5 (ISBN)

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Migrants have, for some time, engaged in the politics of their homelands from a distance, but, as this book argues, politicians are increasingly looking beyond their national boundaries for electoral and political support. While migrants rarely cast decisive votes in homeland elections, they are not marginal to homeland politics. Courting Migrants looks at how extraterritorial outreach by homeland states and parties alters the boundaries of political membership and intersects with migrant agency to transform politics at home. It addresses three specific questions: under what conditions and in what ways do homeland authorities reach out to migrants? How do these migrants respond? And, to what extent does their response affect homeland governance?

Katrina Burgess argues that globalization and the spread of democracy since the 1970s have encouraged politicians in the Global South to reach out to migrants in search of economic resources, foreign policy support, and/or electoral advantage. They do so by cultivating feelings of loyalty that induce some kinds of migrant engagement while discouraging others. Whether or not these politicians succeed depends on where migrants are located, how many resources they have, what kinds of identities they value, and why they left their homeland in the first place. This interaction between outreach and engagement has implications, in turn, for how migrants are responding to the current wave of populism and authoritarianism around the globe. The book is based on in-depth research on state-migrant relations in four high-migration countries: Turkey, Dominican Republic, Philippines, and Mexico.

Katrina Burgess is Associate Professor of Political Economy at Tufts University's Fletcher School.

Chapter 1. Migration and Homeland Politics
Chapter 2. Diasporas, States, and Loyalty
Chapter 3. Contexts of Exit and Reception
Chapter 4. Pathways to Extraterritorial Voting
Chapter 5. Mobilizing Diaspora in Turkey and the Dominican Republic
Chapter 6. Depoliticizing Diaspora in Mexico and the Philippines
Chapter 7. Diasporas as Agents Who Sometimes Make States
Chapter 8. States and Diasporas in Fragile Regimes

Erscheinungsdatum	05.08.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	241 x 160 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-750179-6 / 0197501796
ISBN-13	978-0-19-750179-5 / 9780197501795
Zustand	Neuware