Building Party Support Abroad: Turkish Diaspora Organisations in Germany and the UK

IF 2.5 3区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics and Governance Pub Date : 2024-02-06 DOI:10.17645/pag.7546

I. Yener-Roderburg, Erman Örsan Yetiş

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This article covers a unique form of political mobilisation within the Turkey-originated diasporic community in Europe that formed after Turkey introduced external voting in 2012. Although existing literature has paid attention to the impact of homeland political parties on external voting rights and diaspora organisations’ role in electoral campaigns, these organisations’ impact on members’ mobilisation capacities for certain homeland parties remains understudied. This article tackles this topic by first comparing Turkey-originated diaspora organisations in Germany and the UK. Secondly, it guides future empirical work on the impact of the diaspora organisations on remote partisans’ political orientation by taking the dominant emigrant profile in a residence country dimension into the study of external voting. Focusing on eligible Turkish citizens, the findings of this article are based on participant observation and 60 in-depth interviews conducted with remote voters who participated in the mobilisation of Turkey-based political parties in Germany between 2018 and 2023 and in the UK between 2021 and 2023 through diaspora organisations.

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在海外建立党派支持：德国和英国的土耳其侨民组织

本文论述了土耳其于2012年引入外部投票权后，散居欧洲的土耳其侨民社区内部形成的一种独特的政治动员形式。尽管现有文献关注了土耳其本土政党对外部投票权的影响以及侨民组织在竞选活动中的作用，但这些组织对土耳其本土政党成员动员能力的影响仍未得到充分研究。本文首先通过比较德国和英国的土耳其侨民组织来探讨这一问题。其次，通过将居住国中占主导地位的移民概况纳入对外部投票的研究中，为今后关于侨民组织对偏远地区党派政治取向的影响的实证工作提供指导。本文以合格的土耳其公民为研究对象，研究结果基于对2018年至2023年期间在德国和2021年至2023年期间在英国通过侨民组织参与土耳其政党动员的远程选民进行的参与观察和60次深度访谈。

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