The Transnational Reconfiguration of Politics and Its Implications for Nation-States and Their Security

The article is set to discuss the transnational reconfiguration of politics and the implications it has for nation-states and their security. It is a process that international migration has contributed to bring about and has direct connections with the kind of relationships that migrant-sending countries decide to establish with their citizens living abroad. After a definition of the key concepts of this study, such as globalization and transnational politics, the article will focus on two particular aspects of the political participation of transnational migrants, regarding their involvement in the politics of the home countries as well as in that of the host countries. As an example of the former aspect, the case will be presented of Ecuador as a “transnational nation-state”.