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Beyond the economic and social effects of international migration researchers show regular exchanges between immigrants and stay-at-homes produce political spillovers in sending countries. As a broad body of literature demonstrates, most migrants maintain at least some form of contact with key connections back home, whether through long-distance communication, remittance sending, or in person visits. We investigate if exposure to international migration affects non-migrant citizens political interest, awareness, and attitudes about the efficacy of elections using longitudinal survey data from the Mexico 2006 Panel Study. We use a novel statistical approach combining Double Robust estimation technique with propensity score weighting. Our results suggest that Mexican non-migrant citizens exposed to international migration through social connections and remittances are more likely to be politically aware than those without. We also offer theoretical pathways to explain how ideational and material resources embedded in migrant social networks influences the political interest of stay-at-home citizens.
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El estudio analiza la capacidad discriminante de las variables interés en la política, conocimiento político, eficacia política y confianza política entre diferentes modos de participación política de los jóvenes de la ciudad de Córdoba/Argentina (no participación, participación política convencional y no convencional). Un total de 300 jóvenes de 18 a 30 años, seleccionados por muestreo no aleatorio, intervino voluntariamente del estudio. El conjunto de variables psico-sociales analizadas fue sometido a un análisis discriminante para tres grupos. Los resultados obtenidos aportan un modelo que destaca el poder discriminante de las variables socio-cognitivas más relevantes asociadas a la participación política de los jóvenes, con excepción de la eficacia política externa y la confianza política, y discute perfiles sociocognitivos de jóvenes cordobeses participantes en política.(AU)
The main purpose of the research is to establish the discriminant power of political interest, political knowledge, political efficacy and political confidence among the different modes of political participation (non-participation, conventional participation and non-conventional participation) of young people in Córdoba/Argentina. 300 young people from 18 to 30 years old - choiced by a non random sampling - give his consent to participate in the study. A discriminant analysis with 3-groups was applied to all the psycho-social variables. The obtained results allow developing a model in wich all sociocognitives variables (but external efficacy and political confidence) have a good discriminatory power of the different modes of political participation. Furthermore, the paper discusses differentiated sociocognitives profiles of young people who participate in politics.(AU)