ENMISA 2009 Heisler Award is Announced

The Heisler Award committee is pleased to recognize Matthew Lieber (Brown University) for his  paper  “National Institutions for a World Polity: Transnational Migrant Diasporas, Political Remittances and State Responses”. The paper is an excellent analysis of overseas voting institutions. Looking at expatriate voting rights and political participation in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, Lieber makes a convincing case for developing the concept of 'political remittances'. Lieber's theoretical arguments are well rooted in the international relations scholarship and  the literature on diasporas. The paper's focus on migrant extra-territorial politics and the impact on the redefinition of the ‘national’ adds important insights to the understanding of how states and migrant societies interplay and of the emergence of new institutions for political participation.