Democracy for all: restoring immigrant voting rights in the US

Hayduk, Ron

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“…While economic gaps between immigrants and native-born citizens vary across multicultural democracies in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, the general trend is the same: Immigrants are generally worse off than native-born citizens in terms of the resources of time and money that are needed for political participation. Insofar as political participation requires significant resources that immigrants have in shorter supply than native-born citizens, their participation rates are, not surprisingly, lower than native-born citizens (Brady et al 1995;Hayduk 2006).…”

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confidence: 97%

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Integration Through Participation: Non-Citizen Resident Voting Rights in an Era of Globalization

Munro

2008

Int. Migration & Integration

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This paper examines institutional arrangements, which grant municipal voting rights to non-citizen residents of multicultural democracies and considers whether such arrangements are normatively compelling and practically useful as a way to achieve the multiculturalist aim of integration. Local voting rights have been granted to non-citizens in part as a strategy to integrate immigrants into mainstream democratic political life and thereby to avoid the radicalism that is sometimes the product of political exclusion and isolation. The author argues that the adoption of such arrangements in Canada and other multicultural democracies might not only provide newcomers with better opportunities to participate in decision-making processes that affect their interests -thus satisfying a democratic commitment to legitimacy -but that formal political participation by noncitizen residents might also encourage the development of the deliberative capacities and democratic commitments of those potential citizens. Indeed, the arrangements offer a democratic citizen apprenticeship that pursues a gradual integration of newcomers while being responsive to their claims and interests. The paper identifies and discusses certain barriers to non-citizen participation -including the comparatively lower socioeconomic status of newcomers and the lack of official language mastery -but it argues that inclusive, albeit unconventional, participatory arrangements may offer the best hope we have to overcome those circumstances and avoid newcomers' slide into political cynicism.Résumé Cet article porte sur les arrangements institutionnels dans les démocraties multiculturelles qui donnent aux résidents non-citoyens le droit de vote municipal, et examine si ces arrangements représentent un impératif à tendance normative et une façon pratique et utile d'atteindre le but multiculturel qui est l'intégration. Le droit de vote local a été accordé aux non-citoyens en partie comme stratégie visant l'intégration des immigrants dans la vie politique et démocratique régulière, évitant ainsi le radicalisme qui est parfois le résultat de l'exclusion politique et l'isolement. L'auteur maintient que l'adoption de ce genre d'arrangements au Canada et dans d'autres démocraties multiculturelles offre aux nouveaux arrivants de meilleures occasions pour participer aux processus de prise de décisions qui les affectent, satisfaisant ainsi un critère démocratique de la légitimité. De plus, la participation politique formelle par des résidents non-citoyens pourrait stimuler le développement des capacités délibératives et de l'engagement démocratique chez ces citoyens potentiels. Effectivement, les arrangements proposent un apprentissage démocratique à la citoyenneté comme cheminement vers l'intégration graduelle des nouveaux arrivants, tout en respectant leurs revendications et leurs intérêts. Cet article identifie et discute certaines barrières à la participation de la part de non-citoyens, y compris le statut socioéconomique relativement faible et le manque de maîtrise ...

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Section: Explaining Low Turnoutmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…For detailed accounts of the non-citizen voting rights regimes in all of the jurisdictions mentioned here, seeAleinikoff & Klusmeyer (2002),Earnest (2003),Hayduk (2006),Kondo (2001), andLayton-Henry (1990).…”

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Integration Through Participation: Non-Citizen Resident Voting Rights in an Era of Globalization

Munro

2008

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…1) calls it "a set of loyalties to humanity as a whole." Seen in this light, cosmopolitanism has become an important topic within contemporary theorizations of political geography (Marchetti, 2006;Taylor, 1996Taylor, , 2000, citizenship (Archibugi, 2008;Carter, 2001;Chandler, 2003;Furia, 2005;Sassen, 2002), immigration (Hayduk, 2006), globalization (Agnew, 2009;Latham, 2002), and geographies of justice (Tan, 2004).…”

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Injecting cosmopolitanism into the geography classroom

Warf

2014

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Cosmopolitanism is an ethical, moral, and political philosophy with profound geographical implications. In extending circles of compassion to a worldwide scale, it encourages respect for difference, including the concerns of distant strangers. This essay outlines the precepts of cosmopolitanism, its historical development, and the challenges it poses to nationalism. It justifies teaching cosmopolitanism in geography courses based on the need for empathetic understanding in an age of intense globalization. It offers strategies for teaching cosmopolitanism that seek to challenge students' geographical imaginations, including the author's experiences. The conclusion links teaching cosmopolitanism to geographies of care and caring.

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“…(2005: 194) 2 One could object that, from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, many US states had even granted foreign nationals voting rights in federal elections (Raskin 1993;Hayduk 2005). As pointed out by Spiro (2008: 92), however, these were generally not conceived as rights derived from residence, but as privileges for 'declarant aliens' who had formally declared their intention to become citizens.…”

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confidence: 99%