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Voting at Home and Abroad: The Tunisian Diaspora since 2011
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jaulin, Thibaut Nilsson, Björn |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | This paper explores two dimensions of the relation between migration and the Arab Spring: the diffusion of external voting rights in Tunisia and in Arab countries before and after 2011, and the dynamics of Tunisian electoral behavior abroad since 2011. It shows, first of all, that the adoption of external voting rights aims to strengthen the legitimacy and stability of the current regimes in a context of political crisis, and that voter turnout does not give us an accurate measure of migrants' interest for the politics of their homeland. We then go on to draw further conclusions from an original survey of Tunisian voters in the region of Paris (Ile-de-France) and maps of Tunisian electoral behavior abroad. These show that external elections mobilize migrants integrated in their host country but who maintain strong ties with their country of origin, and that the migrants' political preferences replicate the structuring of the transnational migration space. |
| Starting Page | 41 |
| Ending Page | 71 |
| Page Count | 31 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 31 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.openedition.org/remi/pdf/7372 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
