23/05/2016: Migration seminar “What is the relationship between immigrant political participation in receiving societies and transnational political engagement with countries of origin?” by Ali Chaudhary
What is the relationship between immigrant political participation in receiving societies and transnational political engagement with countries of origin?
Dr. Ali R. Chaudhary (University of Oxford, Wolfson College)
MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar in collaboration with Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE)
Abstract: Sociological scholarship on transnational political engagement offers competing interpretations regarding the relationship between immigrant incorporation and transnational engagement. One strand of scholarship contends that transnational political engagement declines overtime as immigrants undergo a re-socialization in their new receiving societies. Another stand argues that socioeconomic incorporation and transnational engagement are complimentary processes. Neither strands of scholarship specifically examine the effects of immigrants’ civic and political participation in the receiving country on their transnational political engagement. Drawing on previous scholarship, this article introduces the ‘re-socialization’ and ‘complementarity’ perspectives on immigrant transnational politics…