Diasporas, Voting and Linguistic Justice

Matteo Bonotti completed his PhD in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University, Australia, having previously taught at Cardiff University, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of Edinburgh. Matteo’s research interests include linguistic justice, migration, political parties, political finance, democratic theory, political liberalism, free speech, and food justice. He is the author of Partisanship and Political Liberalism in Diverse Societies (OUP, 2017) and the co-author of Healthy Eating Politics and Political Philosophy: A Public Reason Approach (OUP, 2022), and Money, Parties, and Democracy: Political Finance between Fat Cats and Big Government (OUP, 2025).Chiara De Lazzari completed her PhD in Politics at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. She is an affiliated researcher at Monash University. She previously worked as a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, and at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include migration studies, citizenship rights, political participation of diasporas, and political participation of migrant youth. She is the author of Transnational Politics, Citizenship and Elections (Routledge, 2020).Narelle Miragliotta completed her PhD in Politics at the University of Western Australia. She is currently based in the Politics and International Relations section at Murdoch University, and previously at Monash University. Narelle's research interests include voting, elections, parties, and constitutional politics.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Voting rights, Language Competence and Political Participation.- Chapter 2. Diaspora Institutions, External voting, and Language.- Chapter 3. Emigration and Citizenship: Second- and Third-Generation Italians in Australia.- Chapter 4. Linguistic Justice and Non-Resident Citizens.- Chapter 5. Identity and Voting among Second- and Third-Generation Italo-Australians.- Chapter 6.Language and Political Participation: Key Stakeholders’ and Italo-Australians’ Perspectives.- Chapter 7. Engagement Barriers and Policy Recommendations.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.