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The tie that binds? A comparison of ethnicity-based party ties among emigrated and resident citizens
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Abstract Recent decades have seen a trend toward enfranchising emigrated citizens in home country elections. Political parties have also become increasingly interested in connecting with emigrant voters. That said, we still know little of what voters think of the parties in the home country and how party pre... view more
Recent decades have seen a trend toward enfranchising emigrated citizens in home country elections. Political parties have also become increasingly interested in connecting with emigrant voters. That said, we still know little of what voters think of the parties in the home country and how party preferences may change because of migration. On the one hand, research shows that the experience of migration and the context of the host country have a significant impact on the political behavior of migrants. On the other hand, party ties are known to be resistant to change. In this paper, we study how what is generally assumed to be the strongest of party ties, namely ties to an ethnic party, is affected by migration. Utilizing two highly comparable surveys of resident and non-resident citizens, we study how identifying with an ethnic minority party among Finland-Swedes in Finland, where they constitute a linguistic minority, compares with emigrated Finland-Swedes in Sweden, where they speak the majority language. We find that party ties, even with an ethnic party, tend to be weaker for emigrated citizens. However, the difference is relatively small and only materializes after an extended stay abroad.... view less
Keywords
EVS; partiality; ethnic group; political identity; migration; minority; political behavior; ethnicity; country of origin; election
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
party identification; ethnic party
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-20
Journal
Comparative Migration Studies, 10 (2022)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00291-3
ISSN
2214-594X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed