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Author: Michael S. Danielson (Visiting Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Visiting Assistant Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 15.50cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780190679972
ISBN 10: 0190679972
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 February 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This is an impressive work of social science. The collection of data is close to heroic, the arguments are nuanced and carefully laid out, and the contribution is significant and original. It dampens some of the scholarly hopes that migrants are agents of democratization, but more importantly, it illuminates various configurations and pathways that can explain why migrant political activity may reinforce existing power structures rather than challenge them. --Jose Antonio Lucero, University of Washington This book makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on migrant engagement in politics back home. Danielson uses original data and mixed methods to shed new light on the questions of why migrants engage, how they compare to non-migrants, and what impact they are having on Mexico's democracy, especially at the local level. Among his most interesting although discouraging findings, is that the Mexican political system has been remarkably adept at incorporating migrants without fundamentally changing the rules of the game. --Katrina Burgess, Tufts University Migrants' political impacts in their hometowns follow multiple pathways. This study convincingly shows that cross-border migrant engagement can either democratize from below-or can reinforce local elite domination. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods through the lens of subnational comparison, this study reveals diverse patterns that would be obscured by attempts to find homogenized generalizations. --Jonathan Fox, American University Through an imaginative use of mixed-methods, Danielson's work challenges conventional wisdom of how and why emigrants engage in home-town politics. His in-depth case studies reveal the mechanisms by which migrants get political, and their contradictory effects on democratization. --Willibald Sonnleitner, El Colegio de Mexico
This is an impressive work of social science. The collection of data is close to heroic, the arguments are nuanced and carefully laid out, and the contribution is significant and original. It dampens some of the scholarly hopes that migrants are agents of democratization, but more importantly, it illuminates various configurations and pathways that can explain why migrant political activity may reinforce existing power structures rather than challenge them. --Jose Antonio Lucero, University of Washington This book makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on migrant engagement in politics back home. Danielson uses original data and mixed methods to shed new light on the questions of why migrants engage, how they compare to non-migrants, and what impact they are having on Mexico's democracy, especially at the local level. Among his most interesting although discouraging findings, is that the Mexican political system has been remarkably adept at incorporating migrants without fundamentally changing the rules of the game. --Katrina Burgess, Tufts University Migrants' political impacts in their hometowns follow multiple pathways. This study convincingly shows that cross-border migrant engagement can either democratize from below-or can reinforce local elite domination. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods through the lens of subnational comparison, this study reveals diverse patterns that would be obscured by attempts to find homogenized generalizations. --Jonathan Fox, American University Through an imaginative use of mixed-methods, Danielson's work challenges conventional wisdom of how and why emigrants engage in home-town politics. His in-depth case studies reveal the mechanisms by which migrants get political, and their contradictory effects on democratization. --Willibald Sonnleitner, El Colegio de Mexico
Author Information
Michael S. Danielson is Visiting Professor at the University of California Washingston DC Program and Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at the American University. He is the co-editor of Latin America's Multicultural Movements: The Struggle Between Communitarianism, Autonomy, and Human Rights.
