Study of the factors conducive to the political participation of immigrants with voting rights. Case of Venezuelan residents in Chile (2017-2021)

Abstract

This article identifies the factors that propitiate the active role of Venezuelan residents with the right to vote in Chile, exploring as a hypothesis that their active role to participate in the Chilean elections obeys to individual and social factors. The findings emerged from surveys to 100 Venezuelan residents with more than 5 years in Chile and statistical analysis evidence that economic income is an explanatory factor in the three elections held in Chile, the sense of belonging has correlation only in the presidential elections of 2017, the educational level both in the presidential elections and the plebiscite 2020, the political discourse in the constituent elections of 2021 while the associative participation does not explain such participation.