Seminar invitation: Adapting Citizenship and Immigration Regimes in Latin America
Utrecht University’s Migration and Societal Change research network is organising a seminar that broadly outlines how Latin American states design and tweak their immigration and citizenship regimes. These regimes entail state-defined rules and procedures that determine a foreign resident’s rights and legal status.
Although South America has often been portrayed as liberal and progressive in its immigration approaches—such as supporting the right to migrate, temporary protection, and large-scale regularization—the region’s migration policies started to conform to a global regime of control as early as 2000, including targeting irregular immigration. This talk focuses on established and emerging trends in migration and legal status across the region.
The seminar synthesizes several years of Dr. Victoria Finn’s qualitative research on policymaking, laws, and overall migration governance. In addition, she will outline new relevant global datasets on citizenship (Dyadic Dual Citizenship; the GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset), migrant voting rights (EVRR: Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset; MER: Migrant Electoral Rights), and migration policy (the IMISEM Project). Lastly, she will reflect on what these changes in immigration and citizenship regimes mean for migrant rights, political representation, and democracy.
For more information and to register, please go to: https://www.uu.nl/en/events/adapting-citizenship-and-immigration-regimes-in-latin-america.