Conclusion: Regional Governance in South America

Hoffmann, Anne Marie

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“…UNASUR was formed in 2008, bringing together the 12 countries of South America. Prior to joining UNASUR, some of these countries belonged to other groupings such as the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Andean Community (CAN), and they were joined by Chile, Suriname, and Guyana in this new RIO (UNASUR 2008;Hoffmann 2018). UNASUR had no explicit second face.…”

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Regional International Organizations and Health: A Framework for Analysis

Greer

Amaya

Jarman

et al. 2021

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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Context: Regional international organizations, from the South African Development Community (SADC) to the European Union (EU), are organizations that promote cooperation among countries in a specific region of the world. Asking what RIOs do to health and health policy by looking only at their formal health policies can understate their effects (e.g., a free trade agreement with no stated health goals can affect health policy) and overstate their effects (as with agreements full of ambition that did not deliver much). Methods: We adopt a "three faces" framework that identifies their direct health policies, the effects of their trade and market policies, and their effects on health via fiscal governance of their member states in order to better capture their health impact. We tested the usefulness of the framework by examining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), EU, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA/USMCA), SADC, and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). Findings: All RIOs had some impact on health systems and policies; and, in many cases, the principal policies were not identified as health policy. Conclusions: Such a framework will be useful in understanding their effects on health systems and policies because it captures indirect and even unintended health effects in a way that permits development of explanatory theories.

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Regional International Organizations and Health: A Framework for Analysis

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Amaya

Jarman

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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“…In the context of South America, scholars have labeled both individual countries’ immigration policies and the region's migration regime as “liberal” (Cantor, Freier, and Gauci 2015) and “progressive” (Acosta 2018) and ranked the latter as one of the most developed worldwide, after the European Union's (EU) free movement regime (Geddes et al 2019; Lavenex 2019). However, scholars have also noted the continued existence in the region of a national security paradigm, which coexists with the “liberal/progressive” migration regime (Domenech 2007; Menjívar 2014).…”

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Actors, Ideas, and International Influence: Understanding Migration Policy Change in South America

Brumat

Espinoza

2023

International Migration Review

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This article analyzes the role of ideas, domestic actors, and international influences in migration policy change (MPCh) in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Building on 67 in-depth interviews with key actors in migration governance, public declarations of government representatives, and relevant legislation, we argue that the increased power of “securitist” actors within national bureaucracies shaped MPCh in all three countries. Between 2015 and 2019, these actors promoted a set of programmatic ideas and policy proposals that linked migration to security issues and distinguished between “good” and “bad” immigrants, emulating Global North countries. This set of ideas resulted in policy change at the country level, but at the same time, national-level policy change coexisted with continuity at the regional level. This article contributes to the literature on migration governance, first, by extending the geographical focus of migration policy studies, which frequently focus on party politics, coalitions, and public opinion, beyond the Global North. Second, we further current explanations of MPCh and policy contradictions by differentiating between continuity and change in programmatic ideas, policy proposals, and public philosophies. Third, we advance the regional migration policy literature by distinguishing between different groups of actors within national bureaucracies and enhancing understanding of these actors’ roles at both the national and international levels. Across its sections, this article shows that policy ideas—where and from whom they come—matter. By unpacking the different types of ideas that influence policy shifts and the actors who promote them, we can better understand apparent contradictions in migration policy.

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Conclusion: Regional Governance in South America

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Regional International Organizations and Health: A Framework for Analysis

Regional International Organizations and Health: A Framework for Analysis

Actors, Ideas, and International Influence: Understanding Migration Policy Change in South America

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