El voto extraterritorial en Uruguay. Inequidades y asimetrías en una trama política transnacional

Abstract

From the results of a multi-situated ethnographic study, this article describes and historicizes two processes closely associated with the political practices and the exercise of transnational citizenship in the case of the Uruguayan residents in Argentina. The first is the process of nationalization of the demand for the right to extraterritorial vote; the second is the institutionalization of management, mobilization and movement of the frenteamplista electorate. In this paper, both processes officiate as an access to a transnational political and civic practices that, usually, has been little explored by the specific literature: asymmetries and iniquities reproduced in transnational action that, in this case, paradoxically, the native perspective presented as a possible answer to the inequality generated by the absence of a regulatory framework to able “remote voting”.