The Political Candidacy of EU Migrants in their European Countries of Residence. The Case of British and Romanians Standing in Spanish Local Elections

Ciornei, Irina (2013). The Political Candidacy of EU Migrants in their European Countries of Residence. The Case of British and Romanians Standing in Spanish Local Elections. Journal of ethnic and migration studies : JEMS, 40(9), pp. 1375-1393. Routledge 10.1080/1369183X.2013.857594

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What explains the variation in how European citizens of diverse origins are politically
incorporated in the member states of residence? This paper argues that immigrant
groups’ status in the host society plays an important role in political party responses to
immigrants’ political participation. Drawing on the case of Romanian and British
candidacies in the Spanish local elections from 2011, the paper finds that the level of
competition between parties is the key mechanism for incorporating candidates from a
positively/neutrally perceived group. Instead, a greater level of ethnic diversity
encourages the incorporation of candidates from the negatively perceived group. To
demonstrate this, the paper uses an original data-set with the Romanian and British
candidates in a large number of Spanish localities.

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