Turning rights into ballots: Mexican external voting from the US

Finn, Victoria; Rayas, Andrés Besserer

doi:10.1080/21622671.2022.2141849

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“…States can tweak laws and application, for instance, deciding to enact but not implement migrant voting rights (Palop-García & Pedroza, 2019; Umpierrez de Reguero, this issue), implement but restrict rights (Chang & Pedroza, 2020;Finn & Besserer Rayas, 2022;Hutcheson & Arrighi, 2015;Wellman & Whitaker, 2021), implement rights but then reverse them (Hayduk, 2006;Wellman, 2021), or continue to implement or expand rights, as in Chile (Finn, 2020a). Migrant voting rights greatly vary since countries often restrict rights to select migrant groups or election types, e.g., local, regional, national, or a combination (Arrighi & Lafleur, 2019;Bauböck, 2005;Escobar, 2017;Pedroza, 2019;Piccoli, 2021).…”

Section: Migrant Enfranchisement: Trends Reasons and Timingmentioning

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Enfranchising migrants in Chile: a century of politics, elites, and regime changes

Finn

2023

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Enfranchising migrants into the demos is a growing global trend, not exclusive to democracy.Analyzing a country that has expanded migrant suffrage in both democracy and dictatorship, I address how and why Chile became one of the most inclusive countries worldwide for migrant voting rights.Chile was a pioneer for enacting select immigrant suffrage rights in relative democracy in 1925, expanded the rights in 1980 during dictatorship, then was a latecomer for granting emigrant voting rights in liberal democracy in 2014. Stepping away from analyzing enfranchisement in consolidated democracies in the 'Global North', I unpack almost a century of elite-led top-down politics in Chile through historical analysis and taking 1980 enfranchisement as an extreme case. The evidence comes from constitutional laws, transcribed debates from constitutional commission sessions, scholarly literature, national censuses, and electoral data. The findings reveal the durability of migrant voting rights and a normative path dependence of who belongs as voters. Inclusivity requires not only continued implementation in elections but also rights survival through shifting ideology and political regime types.

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Enfranchising migrants in Chile: a century of politics, elites, and regime changes

Finn

2023

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Besserer Rayas has already published academic research on immigration federalism (Besserer Rayas 2021) and immigrant enfranchisement (Finn and Besserer Rayas 2022), but notes in his reflexive account of apprenticeship that the nature of learning through doing was necessary to hone the skills to do public sociology. Besserer Rayas used these skills to impressive effect in his work on how the bureaucratic stripping of Colombian citizenship harmed dual national Colombian-Venezuelan immigrants.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology

Smith

2023

Sociological Forum

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Publicly engaged sociology seeks to use our research and work to engage stakeholders within and beyond the university to analyze and fight inequality or injustice, and to address other issues society faces. Sociologists who do such work help universities (and other institutions) keep their social contract to use our work to make society better. This Special Issue continues the Eastern Sociological Society's work on publicly engaged sociology, including the 2022 creation of Public Sociology Awards for Early Career and Post‐Tenure scholars, and my Presidential Address. Contributors to this volume can hopefully serve as examples to younger sociologists, because these articles describe how the authors have done excellent basic research and used it to address societal problems, and have navigated hazards of such work, including the MeSearch gaze. Contributors do publicly engaged sociological work from the most macro‐level, such as analyzing how algorithms promote division and undermine democracy or how to better disseminate sociological work to wider audiences, to work on national policies to create more equitable universities, to the local contexts, including working to promote play for elementary school students, or oust sheriffs responsible for family separation, or restore citizenship stripped from naturalized immigrants. Authors range across the spectrum of sociological careers, from current doctoral students, to postdocs, to tenured professors, to the American Sociological Association's 2024 President.

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“…A third, and important, tool of publicly engaged research was that I could present myself with some academic standing despite being a student: I had already coauthored a report with a nonprofit (Smith et al 2020) and I related my experience with Rob in publicly engaged work. Additionally, I had published two journal articles at the time (Besserer Rayas 2021;Smith et al 2021) and was in the process of publishing a third (Finn and Besserer Rayas 2022). Third, I had the support of Robert, who provided key advice on many of the conceptual and methodological issues of the research and report.…”

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“…Additionally, I had published two journal articles at the time (Besserer Rayas 2021; Smith et al. 2021) and was in the process of publishing a third (Finn and Besserer Rayas 2022). Third, I had the support of Robert, who provided key advice on many of the conceptual and methodological issues of the research and report.…”

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In Medias Res: Using Sociology to Uncover the Harm of Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality in Colombia. Reflections on Public Sociology as a Graduate Student¹

Rayas

2023

Sociological Forum

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Some literature on public sociology conceives of students as a public rather than potential or real practitioners of this type of sociology. There is a dearth of texts reflecting on graduate student training in public sociology and the trade‐offs they face. In this paper, I engage in a reflexive account of my experience doing public sociology, as I partnered with nonprofits to conceptualize, research, and write a report on the effects of stripped citizenship in Colombia after a mistaken administrative decision deprived 40,000 mostly binnational Venezuelan‐Colombians of their nationality in that country. This report has served as part of strategic litigation and to raise public awareness of the harmful policy. I argue that three things are key for graduate students to engage in public sociology and have been overlooked. First, training in public sociology, especially training with elements of apprenticeship, can develop the publicly engaged sociological imagination and toolkit, which is key to identifying opportunities for interventions in the midst of fieldwork, and models for interventions. Second, support from established professors. And third, local, contextual knowledge is indispensable. I also discuss ways to offset some of the trade‐offs that graduate students are likely to face when doing public sociology.

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Turning rights into ballots: Mexican external voting from the US

Cited by 10 publications

References 68 publications

Enfranchising migrants in Chile: a century of politics, elites, and regime changes

Enfranchising migrants in Chile: a century of politics, elites, and regime changes

Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology

In Medias Res: Using Sociology to Uncover the Harm of Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality in Colombia. Reflections on Public Sociology as a Graduate Student¹

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Turning rights into ballots: Mexican external voting from the US

Cited by 10 publications

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Enfranchising migrants in Chile: a century of politics, elites, and regime changes

Enfranchising migrants in Chile: a century of politics, elites, and regime changes

Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology

In Medias Res: Using Sociology to Uncover the Harm of Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality in Colombia. Reflections on Public Sociology as a Graduate Student1

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In Medias Res: Using Sociology to Uncover the Harm of Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality in Colombia. Reflections on Public Sociology as a Graduate Student¹