The relationship between state and absent citizens is becoming more important since the globalization of the 1990s. Countries usually try to increase the number of their citizens through two methods. The first is by increasing the number of nationals living abroad using a dual-nationality system. The second is by expanding national power through dual culturalism. These methods increase the international capacity of the home state through the expansion of the de facto state territory from the perspective of network-power theory. Latin American countries have been relatively passive in this diaspora-engagement policy, but recently they have begun to show an active attitude by revising their migration policy—amendments to the Constitution and migration law, dual nationality, dual culturalism, voting rights abroad, and upgrading the status of diaspora agencies, etc. However, it is still unclear how the multinational and multi-ethnic Latin American countries conceptualize diaspora. This paper analyzes the diaspora-engagement policy of Latin American countries from the standpoint of network-power theory and tries to find out what its theoretical framework is. This paper concludes that the theorization work on diaspora should continue to track and analyze these policy changes, since it is difficult to understand what the diaspora concept is and what policy objectives the state is pursuing under the current diaspora-engagement policy.

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跨国界国家的宪法化：从拉丁美洲的角度

自 1990 年代全球化以来，国家与缺席公民之间的关系变得越来越重要。各国通常尝试通过两种方法增加其公民人数。首先是通过使用双重国籍制度增加居住在国外的国民的数量。二是通过双重文化扩张国力。这些方法通过扩大母国的国际能力来增加事实上网络权力理论视角下的国家领土 拉美国家在移民政策上一直比较被动，但最近开始表现出积极态度，通过修改移民政策——修改宪法和移民法、双重国籍、双重文化、海外投票权、升级等侨民机构的地位等。然而，目前尚不清楚多民族和多民族的拉丁美洲国家如何将侨民概念化。本文从网络权力理论的角度分析了拉美国家的侨民参与政策，并试图找出其理论框架是什么。本文的结论是，关于侨民的理论化工作应继续跟踪和分析这些政策变化，