Year: 2018
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: As the vast majority of immigrants arrive in their host countries with severely limited political rights, it is quite natural that their political representation is usually the last area of interest for migration scholars. So many obstacles meet immigrants in their inclusion into host country politics that they are naturally studied first: access to citizenship, voting rights, electoral registration and turnout, acquisition of new civic and political identities and partisanship, non-electoral forms of engagement and organization. It is thus the last frontier to turn to immigrants as full political actors seeking to enter the proverbial corridors of power: becoming candidates and winning elections; and even further down the line to their actions as legislators and the broader meaning of their presence. Research on this issue is therefore newer, scarcer, but growing fast, and increasingly moving on from the mere accounting and description to deep and critical theoretical engagement with related literatures and slowly developing its own vocabulary of theory and empirical inquiry. This symposium showcases the main areas of growth, controversy and the future directions of travel for this promising area
Author: Maria Sobolewska
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2886902597