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Long-distance engagement by migrants in the politics of their homelands is not a new phenomenon, but, as this text 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. Based on in-depth research on state-migrant relations in four high-migration countries, 'Courting Migrants' looks at how extraterritorial outreach by homeland states and parties alters the boundaries of political membership and intersects with migrant agency to transform politics at home.

"This book examines state-migrant relations in four countries with a long history of migration, regime change, and democratic fragility: Turkey, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the Philippines. It uses these cases to develop an integrative theory of the interaction between "diaspora-making" by states and "state-making" by diasporas. Specifically, it tackles three questions: (1) under what conditions and in what ways do states alter the boundaries of political membership to reach out to migrants and thereby "make" diasporas? (2) how do these migrants respond? and (3) to what extent does their response, in turn, transform the state? Through historical case narratives and qualitative comparison, the book traces the feedback loops among migrant profiles, state strategies of diaspora-making, party transnationalization, and channels of migrant engagement in politics back home. The analysis reveals that most migrants follow the pathways established by the state and thereby act as "loyal" diasporas but with important deviations that push states to alter rules and institutions"--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Choosing Sides -- 2. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Party-Union Relations -- 3. Loyalties Under Stress -- 4. Power and Autonomy in Party-Union Relations -- 5. Survival of the Postrevolutionary Alliance in Mexico -- 6. The Socialist Divorce in Spain -- 7. Back from the Brink in Venezuela -- 8. Party-Union Relations in a Liberalizing World -- List of Acronyms -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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