Voting is predominantly understood through resident citizens’ viewpoints. Many resident citizens are nervous about the perceived consequences of voting by resident noncitizens. Although New Zealand is the only Western democratic host country that currently allows noncitizens to vote in national elections, citizens have concerns about how noncitizens use this right. This study investigates noncitizen voting from noncitizens’ viewpoints, by exploring the journeys and experiences of Sri Lankan immigrants in New Zealand. Based on 26 interviews with Sri Lankans in Auckland and Wellington, the study found two dimensions—temporal and transnational—that shape immigrants’ views in a different way from those of resident citizen voters. Building on Bridget Anderson’s methodological de-nationalism, the study suggests that we need to recognise the differences between resident citizens and resident noncitizens in order not to homogenise groups and wrongly assume that they share motives and behavioural and decision-making patterns.

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仍在“候诊室”

投票主要是通过居民的观点来理解的。许多居民公民对居民非公民投票的后果感到紧张。尽管新西兰是目前唯一允许非公民在全国选举中投票的西方民主东道国，但公民对非公民如何使用这一权利表示担忧。本研究通过探索斯里兰卡移民在新西兰的旅程和经历，从非公民的角度调查非公民投票情况。该研究基于对奥克兰和惠灵顿的 26 名斯里兰卡人的采访，发现两个维度——时间维​​度和跨国维度——以不同于居民公民选民的方式塑造了移民的观点。该研究以布里奇特·安德森（Bridget Anderson）的方法论去民族主义为基础，表明我们需要认识到居民公民与居民非公民之间的差异，以免使群体同质化，并错误地认为他们有共同的动机、行为和决策模式。