Emigrant Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Book Title
Emigrant Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Volume, number, page
358 p.
Year of Publication
2016
Author(s)
PEDROZA Luicy
PALOP Pau
HOFFMANN Bert
Organization Name
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales - Chile
German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Acronym
FLACSO-Chile
GIGA
Publisher
FLACSO-Chile
City
Santiago
Country of Publication
Chile
Full Date
2016
ISBN or ISSN
978-956-205-257-3
Considered Countries
Mexico
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Uruguay
El Salvador
Belize
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Honduras
Jamaica
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Trinidad and Tobago
Category
Books
Theme
Country - LAC
Country - Country
BIREGIONAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Agreements
BIREGIONAL DIALOGUES UE-LAC
Government
Civil Society
Keyword(s)
Migration
Citizenship
Latin America
Public Policies
Migration policy
International migration
Emigration
Borders
Border Control
Border studies
Comparative analysis
Migrants
Globalization
Mobilities
Migrants remittances
Caribbean
Refugees
Foreign Policy
Abstract
Nation-states are no longer contained by their borders. In times of mass migration and ever more dense transnational networks, states of all sizes and all migration profiles reach out to their emigrated citizens in wholly new ways. The variety of policies that target emigrants (“emigrant policies”) is so vast that it seems to have become a new state function. For example, it is well known that states are expanding citizen participation beyond the nation’s boundaries through voting rights and new modalities of representation and that they are opening channels for remittance transfer and offering specific investment opportunities to returning emigrants. However, other, less studied emigrant policies, comprise the symbolic incorporation of emigrants into the nation-state (e.g. through awards celebrating emigrants’ achievements); social service provisions for non-residents (e.g. health and education); and the institutional inclusion of emigrants in consultative bodies, to name just a few.
This book is the first to systematically take stock of the emigrant policies in place across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, as of 2015. By covering an entire geographical region and being based on rigorous data-collection, this will be a reference in a literature that has so far centered on a few specific cases. Also, our proposed definition of “emigrant policies” encompasses a wide range of policies that are aimed at emigrants beyond the “usual suspects” analyzed in the extant literature (electoral, citizenship, and economic policies), resulting in 112 different dimensions. This survey of such a broad sample of countries and policy dimensions will allow researchers to theorize and make comparisons on models of emigrant policy on a solid empirical and conceptual base.