And your country of nationality is the only place where you are guaranteed to be able to move to in the future. Some countries tax expatriates, some countries draft them into their armed forces. Especially nowadays, expats don't necessarily intend to stay away forever. And with today's transportation and communications, they're not "gone" like emigrants used to be 100 or even 50 years ago. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
Do you mean they need representation to preclude elimination of this right? I'm not sure they deserve this right.
Some countries tax expatriates
Oh, I'd prefer the elimination of that in the course of agreements against double taxation.
some countries draft them into their armed forces
Well, and then they draft-dodge. (Tarkan, Turkey's biggest boy-singer star, lived in the USA for that purpose.)
Especially nowadays, expats don't necessarily intend to stay away forever.
Isn't this a country-specific comment? At any rate, if expats come home, then they regain their voting rights. I don't see why they deserve more rights coming from this reason than 'simple' immigrants. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Why should they be able to keep their citizenship, then? Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
