Democracia, ideología y partidismo en perspectiva transnacional: evidencia del voto migrante de colombiano/as y venezolano/as en Ecuador

Abstract

Studies on migrant electoral participation in Ecuador have prioritized the political rights of non-resident citizens vis-à-vis non-citizen residents, underpinning the inconclusive responses of scholars on transnational electoral behavior. In this research, I examine migrant voting as a multi-categorical variable, in which the individual might be an immigrant and an emigrant in tandem. This analysis bestows a more comprehensive understanding of the different pathways for the process of political resocialization and the construction of theory on electoral behavior. In this sense, this research addresses seminal concepts of political science such as democracy, partisanship and ideology in transnational perspective, assuming a variation of preferences, values and attitudes as a direct effect of migration. Using 34 indepth interviews with Colombians and Venezuelans residing in Ecuador, this study reports how individual experiences and perceptions both in the country of origin and in the country of destination forge patterns of migrant electoral behavior.