The politicization of (im)migration in South America: innovative responses and the weakness of legal frameworks regulating mobility (original) (raw)

This article discusses, based in a literature review and the norms produced by South American countries, how, despite the discourse of being a welcoming destination for immigrants, the region is characterized by institutional xenophobia, difficulty for migrants to access rights, profusion of “ad hoc” instruments for certain mobilities, and difficulty in building integrated regional responses. This process highlights the politicization of the arrival of certain nationalities. In methodological terms, the article uses a reflexive process based on bibliographic and documentary analysis that focuses essentially on the contemporary situation (post-1990), preceded by a brief historical contextualization.

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