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(Free) Movement of people and regional migration policies in MERCOSUR

State of the art

Authors

  • Leiza Brumat

    European University Institute, Italia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.28917/ism.2019-v3-10
Keywords:
migration, migration policies, regional integration, MERCOSUR
Abstract

The free movement of people is one of the most fundamental and visible aspect of a regional integration process. It is also one of MERCOSUR’s objectives. The policies for human mobility in MERCOSUR can be divided into different stages that show advances and setbacks. The studies that analyze and explain the content, the making and the evolution of these policies can also be divided into different stages. The academic work that was published in the 1990s and 2000s were mostly juridical analysis that looked at the content of the legislation for labor mobility. Since the entry into force and the implementation of the Residence Agreement, in the 2010s, there was a proliferation of academic works on the political ideological and discursive aspects of regional integration and the different actors that take place in these processes. There is also a prevailing tendency to compare MERCOSUR with the European Union (EU) or to simply have the EU as a reference. This has consequences in the orientation and the contribution of the studies on this topic, which usually focus on the deficiencies on the implementation of the policies and the intergovernmental character of the MERCOSUR.

This article makes a revision of the literature in academic journals and books in Spanish, English and Portuguese on the free movement of people in MERCOSUR and the regional policies for the movement of people, with a focus on the political science and international relations literature as it studies the political dimension of regional migration policies. The objective of this revision is to make visible the existent knowledge on this subject, the disciplinary and theoretical orientations that have tended to prevail and to identify future topics for research.

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2019-12-14
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Vol. 3 (2019): Las agendas del desarrollo social en el MERCOSUR
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Original Investigation

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(Free) Movement of people and regional migration policies in MERCOSUR: State of the art. (2019). Journal MERCOSUR of Social Policies, 3, 10-24. https://doi.org/10.28917/ism.2019-v3-10