Courting Migrants: How States Make Diasporas and Diasporas Make States

by Katrina Burgess

Migrants have, for some time, engaged in the politics of their homelands from a distance, but, as this book argues, politicians are increasingly looking beyond their national boundaries for electoral and political support. While migrants rarely cast decisive votes in homeland elections, they are not marginal to homeland politics. Courting Migrants looks at how extraterritorial outreach by homeland states and parties alters the boundaries of political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197501796
• ISBN13: 9780197501795
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"