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I should've said that migrants lack universal voting rights because immigrants from the UK have the right to vote in Irish general election. Some migrants are more equal than others. #VotesForMigrants #MigrantVote
Irish Constitution prescribes 1 TD per 20-30k of people living in Ireland including migrants. Yet we've no voting rights to choose people that will represent us and decide about our taxes. That's neither fair nor democratic? #VotesForMigrants #MigrantVote https://t.co/r0GQMZ77wf
Irish Constitution prescribes 1 TD per 20-30k of people living in Ireland including migrants. Yet we've no voting rights to choose people that will represent us and decide about our taxes. That's neither fair nor democratic? #VotesForMigrants #MigrantVote https://t.co/r0GQMZ77wf
Yesterday I gave a talk to @Columbia students on the topic of Migration & Security focusing on how political participation & migrant leadership can make our democracy more secure & stronger #VotesForMigrants #MigrantLeadership
#Voting is an essence of #democracy not #citizenship.
➡️Voting was never about citizenship but class, gender & race.
➡️Citizenship never guaranteed right to vote. ➡️Undemocratic systems subscribe to citizenship but prohibit voting.
#VotesForMigrants
The meaning of #democracy is 'power of people' & the history of democracy is a history of recognising who is people. Ain't I one of people? Then why don't I have the right to vote? The right to #vote is the right to have power #VotesForMigrants
My focus during the #ObamaScholars program is on #VotesForMigrants I am writing mid-term assignments & realized how my thinking is developing. This topic is mostly viewed from the perspective of #integration but it should be approached from the perspective of agency & democracy
It's been 6y since we've @immigrationIRL started investing time & resources to support #migrants #political participation & this👇was our 1st poster. The question still stands are #VotesForMigrants revolutionary or is it an evolution of #democracy?
Art by Stan Buczkowski
There's a perception amongst politicians that migrants do not vote because we have no intrests in politics. The reality is that migrants do not vote because we feel politicians have no intrest in us. #MigrantVote #VotesForMigrants
Ireland (as every country) is being collectively & continuously build & migrants are the parents & grandparents of future Irish generations. So yes, we want to have the right to vote to have a say what the future will look like for our home #VotesForMigrants
Another reason why we need to extend the right to vote in general election to migrants #VotesForMigrants
1 in 8 of our society are #migrants (600k) yet we have no right to elect people that make decisions about our lives & future. That is a serious deficits of #democracy #VotesForMigrants
So everyone has to fill in the Census, which determines the size of the Dáil, but not everyone who filled in the Census is eligible to vote in General Elections? Is that right?
William makes a lots of sense. #Migrants are a subject to laws & policies made by elected representatives, we should have say in who is representing us. #VotesForMigrants
I’d far rather see an expansion of the Dáil franchise to citizens of other nationalities, beginning on a reciprocal basis with nationals of other EU member states.
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