{
  "id": "diaspora-vote.abroad",
  "term": "diaspora vote",
  "sense": "abroad",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A collective self that makes its boundary wider to members living outside its land, reading them as among those who choose its government.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "choose.decision",
      "government.administrative",
      "in-group.inside",
      "make.verb",
      "wide.spatial",
      "member.social",
      "live.biological",
      "outside.spatial",
      "land.geography",
      "read.information"
    ],
    "interaction": "The boundary of who chooses government is drawn by membership and not by place, so the group's edge runs past the edge of its land.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a boundary wider than the land it governs",
      "choosing without living under what is chosen"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Since 2006, Italians living abroad have elected members of the Italian parliament through overseas constituencies.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "nation.political",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a nation is bounded by an area; the diaspora vote draws the boundary past it"
    },
    {
      "id": "locals-only.closed",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "locals only draws the boundary by place; the diaspora vote draws it by membership"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "diaspora vote",
    "diaspora voters",
    "expatriate vote",
    "overseas vote",
    "the diaspora vote"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-diaspora-vote.abroad"
}