{"title":"“Exiliados” in Podemos: A grassroots approach of long‐distance activism in parties abroad","authors":"Vincent Dain","doi":"10.1111/imig.13239","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a grassroots approach and a process‐based analysis of emigrants' activism in parties abroad, through a case study on the Spanish party Podemos' circle in Paris. Building on ethnographic fieldwork and biographical interviews conducted between 2015 and 2016, I explore activists' individual trajectories to better understand the process leading them to join the party abroad. I find that Podemos Paris' activists, previously involved in anti‐austerity protests in Spain, feel part of a generation of young “exiles” forced to leave the country and deprived of their social and civic rights by the conservative government. Joining Podemos in Paris is thus a way to reconnect with Spanish politics and society, compensate for the “need to be part of it,” and contribute to the party's campaigns abroad and in the homeland by raising awareness on emigrants' condition among Spanish residents.","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Migration","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13239","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"DEMOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article proposes a grassroots approach and a process‐based analysis of emigrants' activism in parties abroad, through a case study on the Spanish party Podemos' circle in Paris. Building on ethnographic fieldwork and biographical interviews conducted between 2015 and 2016, I explore activists' individual trajectories to better understand the process leading them to join the party abroad. I find that Podemos Paris' activists, previously involved in anti‐austerity protests in Spain, feel part of a generation of young “exiles” forced to leave the country and deprived of their social and civic rights by the conservative government. Joining Podemos in Paris is thus a way to reconnect with Spanish politics and society, compensate for the “need to be part of it,” and contribute to the party's campaigns abroad and in the homeland by raising awareness on emigrants' condition among Spanish residents.
期刊介绍:
International Migration is a refereed, policy oriented journal on migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and other social scientists from all parts of the world. It covers the entire field of policy relevance in international migration, giving attention not only to a breadth of topics reflective of policy concerns, but also attention to coverage of all regions of the world and to comparative policy.