Overseas Voters and Representational Deficit: Regional Representation Challenged by Emigration

Abstract

Emigrant representation has become increasingly important and visible, albeit difficult topic, and re-evaluation of the means of emigrant political representation is necessary. This article aims to find out how the representation of emigrants could be organised in homeland politics by developing a new framework to analyse migrants’ political representation and by testing it with a case study. The findings suggest that quotas, surrogate representatives, active citizens, or collective interest groups could unravel the possible inequality in emigrant parliamentary representation.

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Johanna Peltoniemi

Johanna Peltoniemi (M.Soc.Sc., M.A.) is a doctoral researcher of political science at the Faculty of Management in the University of Tampere, and a board member of the Finnish Political Science Association. She is a migration fellow from the Institute of Migration. Her research interests focus on transnationalism, emigrant voting behaviour and cross-border political representation. E-mail: [email protected]; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-peltoniemi-0b623b50?trk=hp-identity-name