In this paper we present the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX), an index that summarizes the
emigrant policies developed by 22 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) states. In recent …

Increasing interconnections between nation-states across borders have rendered the
transnational a key tool for understanding our world. It has made particularly strong …

Origin-state institutions dedicated to emigrants and their descendants have been largely
unnoticed by mainstream political studies even though diaspora institutions are now found …

Geographers have a long-standing interest in citizenship as the link between political and
territorial membership. Yet, even when key political processes associated with citizenship …

The multiple politics and identities of many contemporary diasporic configurations raise a
number of important conceptual issues for the study of diaspora politics, including what …

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 …

We identify four main strands of the migrant enfranchisement literature since 2010 and
outline its main (debated) concepts. We pinpoint missing links among the strands, such as a …

Today, a large majority of states allow at least some of their emigrants to take part in home
country elections from abroad. This article first looks at the diffusion of external voting laws …

Despite the extensive spread of external voting across the world, exceptions remain as
some countries have not passed such regulations (eg, Uruguay) or have passed them but …

Diaspora politics has been celebrated as a form of transnationalism that can potentially
challenge authoritarian regimes. Arguably, opposition groups and political activists can …