Abstract

VILCHES HINOJOSA, Miguel  and  AGUILAR LOPEZ, Jesús. Transnational Citizenship and Voting From Abroad in Mexico 2018: the Guanajuato Case in the Elections for President of the Republic and Governor. Migr. Inter [online]. 2022, vol.13, rmiv1i12336.  Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 2594-0279.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2336.

This paper descriptively discusses the vote of Mexicans and people born in Guanajuato, Mexico, living in the United States during the 2017-2018 electoral process. This presidential and gubernatorial election represented a substantial change in the electoral behavior of the Mexican diaspora. The phenomenon is relevant because it is the first time in the political history of this entity that people from Guanajuato living abroad were able to vote to elect a governor and senators. The analysis focuses on the concept of transnational citizenship, which involves the exercise of migrants’ political rights and their consequent impact on the reconfiguration of the State, especially at the subnational level, in addition to being an expansion of political rights that led to the implementation of a series of mechanisms by the federal and local electoral bodies to disseminate and make this right accessible.

Keywords : 1. citizenship; 2. voting from abroad; 3. subnational government; 4. electoral behavior; 5. Guanajuato; Mexico..

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