Political Science Students Survey Mexican Expatriates About Election

“Three months before Mexico votes for its new president, a Purdue University political science professor and his students are learning how interested Mexican expatriates are in the July 2 election.

“For the first time, Mexican expatriates are allowed to vote via absentee ballot for Mexico’s next president, and very few people have applied for the ballots,” says James McCann, an associate professor of political science who studies political behavior in the United States and Mexico. “The voting behaviors and civic dispositions of Mexicans in the Midwest are particularly very understudied, and this is the region that is seeing an incredible growth in Mexican residents.”

“My class is taking a look at what matters politically to U.S. residents who were born in Mexico. It also provides the students a way to improve their fluency in Spanish and gain experience in field work outside of the classroom.”"

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