Les "batailles" de Paris et de New York: Une analyse du comportement électoral transnational des migrants sénégalais en France et aux États-Unis

• Autores: Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Lisa Chauvet, Flore Gubert, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, Étienne Smith
• Localización: Revue française de science politique, ISSN 0035-2950, Vol. 63, Nº 5, 2013, págs. 865-892
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Dual nationality and citizenship, and external voting rights have been granted by a majority of countries for the last years. This article uses original data collected through a multi-sited survey among Senegalese migrants living in France and in the United States during the first round of Senegal's 2012 presidential election to analyse the electoral behaviour of Senegalese migrants and social remittances between destination and origin countries. Senegalese migrants are found to be strongly associated with high level of electoral par- ticipation not only in their origin country but also in their host country for those having dual citi- zenship. Our data also reveal a large range of social remittances between destination and origin countries, which translate into voting recommen- dations that exert strong influence when they come from the migrants