Introduction: Regional Governance in South America

Hoffmann, Anne Marie

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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

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

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2023

International Migration Review

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“…Evidence supporting a regional approach for managing transboundary ocean space, especially within enclosed and semi-enclosed seas, has been growing over the past few decades (Sherman, 1999;Fanning et al, 2009;Sherman and Hempel, 2009;Chung, 2010;Rochette et al, 2015;Duda, 2016;Billé et al, 2017;Langlet, 2018;Cavallo et al, 2019). More recently, strengthening institutional capacity at the regional level has been identified as essential for achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2015) and for pursuing initiatives targeting a blue economy (World Bank and UN-DES, 2017; Keen et al, 2018;Garland et al, 2019;UNGA, 2020).…”

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Challenges to Implementing Regional Ocean Governance in the Wider Caribbean Region

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For over two decades, the countries, subregional and regional level intergovernmental organizations in the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) have been engaged in an initiative to implement a regional governance approach for managing the shared living marine resources of the Caribbean Sea and adjacent regions. Given the inherent socio-economic and geopolitical complexity of the region, this approach has been recognized as essential to address the challenges associated with the interconnected nature of shared ecosystem goods and services upon which countries in the region depend. This paper uses a retrospective lens to shed light on the challenges confronting the region and its efforts to overcome them. It is based on the Large Marine Ecosystem Governance Framework developed specifically for the WCR in 2006 and characterized as “learning by doing.” Data were obtained for this study through desktop review of published literature documenting progress over the period 2001–2021 and insights requested from 15 key individual and institutional contributors involved in the initiative. While the lack of financial resources was an underpinning and cross-cutting issue, key constraints identified were categorized as institutional, capacity building, awareness raising, leadership, legal, political, social capital, or socio-cultural. They include national capacity to engage with regional level processes due to a variety of factors including funding, political, and institutional challenges of developing a regional coordination mechanism, engaging the broader ocean community to create the critical mass needed, the difficulty of mainstreaming ocean affairs into high level political and decision-making fora and the scarcity of local, national and regional technical and political champions. This paper advances understanding of the barriers to be overcome in highly complex socio-politically developing regions if regional ocean governance initiatives are to play the essential role identified in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, reaping the sustainable benefits of a blue economy.

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Introduction: Regional Governance in South America

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

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

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

Challenges to Implementing Regional Ocean Governance in the Wider Caribbean Region

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