Date: 2021
Type: Contribution to book
The residence agreement of Mercosur as an alternative form of protection : the challenges of a milestone in regional migration governance
Liliana Lyra JUBILUT, Gabriela MEZZANOTTI and Marcia VERA ESPINOZA (eds), Latin America and refugee protection : regimes, logics and challenges. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2021, Forced migration, vol. 41, pp. 237-255[Migration Policy Centre]
BRUMAT, Leiza, The residence agreement of Mercosur as an alternative form of protection : the challenges of a milestone in regional migration governance, in Liliana Lyra JUBILUT, Gabriela MEZZANOTTI and Marcia VERA ESPINOZA (eds), Latin America and refugee protection : regimes, logics and challenges. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2021, Forced migration, vol. 41, pp. 237-255[Migration Policy Centre] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72608
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Latin American regional integration schemes have designed regimes for facilitating the movement of persons within the territory of their member states. The most well-known regional policy in the mobility agenda is the Residence Agreement (RAM) of the Southern Common Market (Mercado Común del Sur - Mercado Comum do Sur – Mercosur/Mercosul), which was signed in 2002 and which entered into force in 2009. The RAM creates a facilitated regime for residence for all the nationals of the signatory states, independent of whether migration was ‘voluntary’ or ‘forced’. This means that the RAM could be used for granting residence rights to refugees. In this Chapter I argue that, in face of the current ‘Venezuelan exodus’, the RAM could be used in the region as a way of facilitating the movement and regularization of Venezuelan citizens and thus, granting them residence rights as an alternative to protection.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72608
ISBN: 9781800731158
Series/Number: [Migration Policy Centre]
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keyword(s): Refugee protection Mercosur Regionalism Migration Governance
Grant number: FP7/340430/EU
Sponsorship and Funder information:
The findings this research is based on were supported by European Research Council funding for the Prospects for International Migration Governance (MIGPROSP) project agreement no. 340430 awarded to Professor Andrew Geddes.
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