A Liberal Tide?, livre ebook

Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regressive and restrictive attitudes on display in other parts of the world? The question is urgent not only for our understanding of contemporary Latin America but also as a means of reorienting the debate in the migration studies field toward the important developments currently taking place in the region and in other parts of the global south. This book brings together eight varied and vibrant new analyses by scholars from Latin America and beyond to form the first collection that describes and critically examines the new liberalism in Latin American law and policy on migration and refugees.

Contents

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Introduction: A paradigm shift in Latin American immigration and asylum law and policy?

David James Cantor, Luisa Feline Freier and Jean-Pierre Gauci

1 Migration policies and policymaking in Latin America and the Caribbean: lights and shadows in a region in transition

Pablo Ceriani Cernadas and Luisa Feline Freier

2 Beyond smoke and mirrors? Discursive gaps in the liberalisation of South American immigration laws

Luisa Feline Freier and Diego Acosta Arcarazo

3 Mercosur’s post-neoliberal approach to migration: from workers’ mobility to regional citizenship

Ana Margheritis

4 In transit: migration policy in Colombia

Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez Mojica

5 Trafficking persons within mixed migration flows in Central America

Diana Trimiño Mora

6 The migration of Haitians within Latin America: significance for Brazilian law and policy on asylum and migration

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico, Erika Pires Ramos, Carolina de Abreu Batista Claro and Nara Braga Cavalcante de Farias

7 Refugee protection in Brazil (1921–2014): an analytical narrative of changing policies

José H. Fischel de Andrade

8 Bucking the trend? Liberalism and illiberalism in Latin American refugee law and policy

David James Cantor