Date: 2010
Type: Technical Report
How to Measure Diasporas using Absentee Voter Censuses
Technical Report, [Migration Policy Centre], [CARIM-South], CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes, 2010/42, Migration Summer School - Best Participant Essays Series
PRIETO ROSAS, Victoria, How to Measure Diasporas using Absentee Voter Censuses, [Migration Policy Centre], [CARIM-South], CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes, 2010/42, Migration Summer School - Best Participant Essays Series - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/14047
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Abstract
Availability of data is probably one of the most important determinants of progress in the social sciences and in demography in particular. Extra-territorial voting introduces a new data source for diaspora studies, a source that opens the way to the analysis of both dispersion over territory and political participation. Here we discuss the advantages and drawbacks of censuses for absentee voters as a data source in the territorial and demographic approach to diasporas, paying special attention to the Spanish Census for absentee voters.
Résumé
La disponibilité de données est probablement un des plus importants facteurs de progrès dans le domaine des sciences sociales et de la démographie en particulier. L’introduction du vote à l’étranger a ouvert de nouvelles perspectives dans le cadre de l’étude des diasporas. Cet article discute les avantages et les inconvénients des recensements des électeurs absents en tant que source de données dans une approche territoriale et démographique des diasporas. Il prête également une attention particulière au recensement espagnol des électeurs absents.
Additional information:
Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM)
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/14047
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Series/Number: [Migration Policy Centre]; [CARIM-South]; CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes; 2010/42; Migration Summer School - Best Participant Essays Series