Right to stay? : a study of migrants’ “settlement right” in Argentina

SCUZARELLO, Esteban Octavio

doi:10.5354/0719-3769.2022.66645

Right to stay? : a study of migrants’ “settlement right” in Argentina

dc.contributor.author	SCUZARELLO, Esteban Octavio
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-08T10:21:43Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-08T10:21:43Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description	Published online: December 2022	en
dc.description.abstract	Often, migrants arrive at a place and spend years or even their whole lives living there. They work, socialize, and settle down without necessarily acquiring the new country's citizenship. Some of them could be irregular migrants in legal status, but share the daily life, culture, and mindset of ordinary citizens. Yet, they could still be subjected to expulsion, finding themselves returned to a country that has become strange lands to them regardless of the story their birth certificate tells us. Recently, the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice decided to expel dozens of these migrants not because they had committed a felony but solely because they hold an irregular migrant status. This paper thus asks whether transnational law presents an opportunity to recast Argentinian migration law by generating a "settlement criteria" that would prevent the expulsion of these long-standing migrants. For this purpose, the paper begins by outlining primary legal sources used in Argentina. The second section continues to engage with secondary sources from the international human rights regime. A third and final section concludes that there are several elements that allows to affirm the existence of the “settlement criteria” for the Argentine case.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Estudios internacionales, 2022, Vol. 54, No. 203, pp. 129-147	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.5354/0719-3769.2022.66645
dc.identifier.endpage	147	en
dc.identifier.issn	0719-3769
dc.identifier.issue	203	en
dc.identifier.startpage	129	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75310
dc.identifier.volume	54	en
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dc.publisher	Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales	en
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dc.title	Right to stay? : a study of migrants’ “settlement right” in Argentina	en
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