Analyzing the impacts of migration and transnationalism on global Catholicism, this book explores how this is creating spaces and encounters that are moulding the Roman Catholic Church. Gathering scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography, history and theology, it examines the effects on migrant and non-migrant Catholics and the Church itself.

This open access book is the first monograph that brings together insights from comparative politics, political sociology, and migration studies to introduce the current state of knowledge on external voting and transnational politics. Drawing on new data gathered within the DIASPOlitic project, which created a comparative dataset of external voting results for 6 countries of origin and 17 countries of residence as well as an extensive qualitative dataset of 80 in-depth interviews with four groups of migrants, this book not only illustrates theoretical problems with empirical material, but...