‘Political Remittances’: The Case of Lebanese Expatriates Voting in National Elections

Tabar, Paul

doi:10.1080/07256868.2014.913015

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“…In this introduction, we develop and probe a new definition of political remittances building on historical evidence and theoretical work that has been developed since the emergence of the original concept of social remittance (Goldring 2004;Lacroix, Levitt, and Vari-Lavoisier 2016;Levitt 1998;Levitt and Lamba-Nieves 2011;Tabar 2014). We suggest defining political remittances as the act of transferring political principles, vocabulary and practices between two or more places, which migrants and their descendants share a connection with.…”

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Two centuries of flows between ‘here’ and ‘there’: political remittances and their transformative potential

Krawatzek

Müller‐Funk

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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We advance a concept of political remittances that offers a distinct analytical perspective and enables a comparative assessment across time and space. By providing a new conceptualisation of political remittances, this article elaborates on the link between different kinds of remittances, delimiting the boundaries between political, social, economic, or cultural remittances. We understand political remittances as influencing political practices and narratives of belonging, thereby linking migrants' places of destination and origin. The state, in this conceptualisation, mediates political remittances. The article distinguishes between factors influencing the transmission of political remittances such as the characteristic of the messengers, the relative space between sending and receiving contexts and the composite nature of political remittances. Illustrating the contours of a future research agenda, we suggest ways to operationalise research into political remittances drawing on the articles in this special issue which closely analyse political practices, narratives of belonging and the role of the state. Covering migration processes since the early 1800s, the case studies exemplify that political remittances are not a new phenomenon as such but rather a relatively recent analytic perspective.

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Two centuries of flows between ‘here’ and ‘there’: political remittances and their transformative potential

Krawatzek

Müller‐Funk

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…This concept marked a turning point in the analysis of the migration-development nexus. As a result, scholarship makes claims about the powerful impact of social transfers across a variety of contexts (Kapur, 2010, 2014; Lafleur, 2013; Levitt & Rajaram, 2013; Piper, 2009; Sasse, 2013; Tabar, 2014). …”

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The economic side of social remittances: how money and ideas circulate between Paris, Dakar, and New York

Vari-Lavoisier

2016

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This paper shows how economic remittances undergird the circulation of social remittances between New York, Paris, and Dakar. It compares the transnational practices of Senegalese-born migrants living in France and in the United States during the 2012 Senegalese presidential campaign to demonstrate how economic and political transnational practices mutually reinforce each other.This paper contributes to scholarship in three key ways: it confirms the benefits of combining qualitative and quantitative transnational data, collected from origin and destination countries. It offers a welcome geographic extension to a literature on social remittances from which Africa remains absent. It makes a significant theoretical contribution by connecting economic sociology and migration studies to illuminate the impact of migrants’ transnational practices.

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“…Studies of migrant political transnationalism and diaspora politics in the last three decades have regularly observed how individuals and associations of migrants take their cues from political events or actors in the homeland (Østergaard-Nielsen 2001(Østergaard-Nielsen , 2003Sheffer 2003;Bauböck and Faist 2010;Lyons and Mandaville 2012;Betts and Jones 2016), with a key aspect being the role of decisive critical junctures (Capoccia and Kelemen 2007) or transformative events (Sewell 1996) in migrants' host countries. In this paper, I study diaspora politics through the lens of 'political remittances' (Piper 2009;Levitt and Lamba-Nieves 2011;Tabar 2014;Lacroix, Levitt, and Vari-Lavoisier 2016;Krawatzek and Müller-Funk 2020), arguing that it adds analytical rigour to the picture. Political remittances as a theoretical concept highlight the potentially multidirectional flows of principles, vocabulary and practices taking place in transnational social fields, of which diaspora activists are a part (Basch, Schiller, and Blanc 1994;Faist 2000;Pries 2001).…”

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Fluid identities, diaspora youth activists and the (Post-)Arab Spring: how narratives of belonging can change over time

Müller‐Funk

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper explores the nexus between political remittances, political activism and narratives of belonging. Drawing on semi-directive interviews with activists of three Egyptian youth groups in Vienna and a discourse analysis of their Facebook activism between 2012 and 2017, it shows that major political events in the place of origin can play a keyalbeit ephemeralrole in mobilising descendants of Egyptian migrants abroad. Political discussions and practices in Egypt were reproduced abroad, though to a far less extent. However, personal experiences in Vienna also heavily impregnated ideas about events in Egypt. Interviewees emphasised that the revolution in 2011 led to a renegotiation of their relationship to Egypt and for many, their activism was a way to claim their right to multiple identity constructions. Perceiving Egypt as an integral part of their dual identity, they sought to engage in political debates on integration issues in Austria parallel to raising awareness about political events in Egypt. However, as the government grew more authoritarian after the summer of 2013, identity constructions and political activities started to focus more on the Viennese context again, underlining how closely political activities and narratives of belonging are intertwined.

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‘Political Remittances’: The Case of Lebanese Expatriates Voting in National Elections

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

Two centuries of flows between ‘here’ and ‘there’: political remittances and their transformative potential

Two centuries of flows between ‘here’ and ‘there’: political remittances and their transformative potential

The economic side of social remittances: how money and ideas circulate between Paris, Dakar, and New York

Fluid identities, diaspora youth activists and the (Post-)Arab Spring: how narratives of belonging can change over time

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