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Polities beyond Borders. The New Dynamics of Emigrant Politics and Policies in Latin America

政治超越国界。

基本信息

批准号：
240499613
负责人：
Professor Dr. Bert Hoffmann
金额：
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依托单位：
Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (INSHS)
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2012-12-31 至 2016-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/240499613?language=en
关键词：
Polities beyond Borders.New Dynamics

项目摘要

A current of research in migration studies -transnationalism- is demonstrating since the mid-1990s that emigrants are increasingly keeping economic, social and political ties with their country of origin. However, only recently political science research has begun to focus on what we call 'emigrant policies', that is, policies adopted by sending states that primarily concern citizens abroad. However, findings thus far have been largely confined to either case studies with little generalizability or broader work on specific sub-issues, such as external voting rights. As a result, the reasons why states adopt these policies, their variation and their effects remain largely unknown. Empirically focusing on the Latin American and Caribbean countries as global front-runners in the adoption of emigrant policies, this research project thus addresses two central themes: 1) How do homeland states reach out to emigrants, and what drives the adoption of these policies? And 2): How do 'emigrant politics', that is, the interaction of homeland political actors with emigrants, play out in the adoption of these policies? To answer these questions, we propose a mixed-methods research design which proceeds in three steps: First, we generate an original data-set identifying and codifying the principal emigrant policies at the large N level of all Latin American and major Caribbean countries, something missing so far. Second, we use this database for a quantitative large-N analysis in order to test hypothesis on structural causes for the adoption of emigrant policies; this is done by correlating a number of structural factors regarding the sending state and its emigration community as independent variable with the emigration policies as codified above as the dependent variable. The third step, then, is a qualitative, small-n case study to understand the political dynamics of sending states and emigrants in the definition and adoption of emigrant policies. Using the concept of 'nested analysis' developed by Liebermann, the cases to be selected for this are not defined beforehand but will result from the large-N analysis.Overall, this project will, based on a comprehensive empirical basis, provide new insights on how and why sending states actively adopt policies to engage its emigrated citizens abroad, and on how this impacts not only the politics, but the very re-definition of the polity of the sending societies.

当前移民研究中的跨国主义研究表明，自 20 世纪 90 年代中期以来，移民越来越多地与其原籍国保持经济、社会和政治联系。然而，直到最近，政治科学研究才开始关注我们所谓的“移民政策”，即派遣国采取的主要关注海外公民的政策。然而，迄今为止的研究结果主要局限于缺乏普遍性的案例研究或针对特定子问题（例如外部投票权）的更广泛的工作。因此，各国采取这些政策的原因、其变化及其影响仍然很大程度上未知。该研究项目以拉丁美洲和加勒比国家作为全球移民政策采用的领跑者为重点，因此解决了两个中心主题：1）祖国如何接触移民，以及是什么推动了这些政策的采用？ 2）：“移民政治”，即祖国政治行为者与移民的互动，在这些政策的采纳过程中如何发挥作用？为了回答这些问题，我们提出了一个混合方法的研究设计，该设计分三个步骤进行：首先，我们生成一个原始数据集，用于识别和编纂所有拉丁美洲和主要加勒比国家的大N级别的主要移民政策，这是迄今为止所缺少的。其次，我们使用该数据库进行定量大N分析，以检验关于采取移民政策的结构性原因的假设；这是通过将关于输出国及其移民社区的一些结构性因素作为自变量与作为因变量的上述移民政策相关联来实现的。那么，第三步是定性的小规模案例研究，以了解输出国和移民在移民政策的定义和采用中的政治动态。利用利伯曼提出的“嵌套分析”概念，为此选择的案例不是预先定义的，而是由大N分析得出的。总体而言，该项目将基于全面的实证基础，为输出国如何以及为何积极采取政策吸引其海外移民公民，以及这不仅影响政治，而且影响输出国社会政体的重新定义提供新的见解。