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A Limited Engagement: Mexico And Its Diaspora, Roger D. Waldinger

Roger D Waldinger

Given the many forms of migrants’ involvements with their home communities – not to speak of the resources that they mobilize – sending states have adopted policies of diaspora engagement, seeking to both retain the emigrants’ loyalties and shape their attachments so as best to meet home state leaders’ goals. This paper seeks to gain traction on the politics of diaspora engagement by studying by two contrasting aspects of the Mexican experience – expatriate voting, a relatively new development, and provision of the matricula consular, a long-standing component of traditional consular services, though one that has recently been transformed. Focusing …