Les Mexicains des États-Unis et la revendication du droit de vote au Mexique

Since 1988, Mexicans in the United States have established different strategies of collective mobilization in order to obtain the right to vote from abroad in the Mexican presidential and legislative elections. In California in particular, this demand has developed through four stages. Mexican political parties and government responded differently to this demand. After the 2000 presidential elections and in an increasingly favorable atmosphere, the demands have led the new Mexican president to promise a constitutional reform. The Mexican migrants’ demand for the right to vote highlights the dilemma of national allegiance, which in turn reveals the meanings and representations of voting and citizenship specific to this population. It also reflects the constitution of a political actor per se on the other side of the border