Abstract

MERENSON, Silvina. Political community and transnational citizenship: ethnographic perspectives on a heterogeneous articulation. Etnográfica [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp.149-167. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.5191.

“Political community” and “transnational citizenship” are two of the greatest categories that lead the debates in the field of transnational studies, more specifically in the analysis related to the political practices of the transmigrants regarding the expansion or the exercise of the civic and political rights outside their native countries. From an ethnographic perspective, this article analyzes the existing tensions between both categories. In order to achieve this, it summarizes some of the current debates in literature and mentions the approaches that allow us to think of their uses, meanings and specific practices. In order to point out, if not the autonomy of both concepts, at least the heterogeneous and complex aspect of their practical articulation, we recur to one of the oldest migration processes in the Southern Cone: that of Uruguayans to Argentina.

Keywords : transnational studies; transnational political practices; extraterritorial vote.

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