Overview

Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. It analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region. Drawing from multidisciplinary texts from both leading academics and practitioners, this comprehensive, innovative and highly topical book adopts an analytical framework to understand and improve Latin America’s protection of refugees.

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Author:   Liliana Lyra Jubilut ,  Marcia Vera Espinoza ,  Gabriela Mezzanotti
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805393191

ISBN 10:   1805393197
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   03 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Abbreviations Foreword James C. Hathaway Introduction: Refugee Protection in Latin America: Logics, Regimes and Challenges Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Marcia Vera Espinoza and Gabriela Mezzanotti Part I: The Regime of the Cartagena Declaration Chapter 1. The 1984 Cartagena Declaration: A Critical Review of Some Aspects of its Emergence and Relevance José H. Fischel de Andrade Chapter 2. The Invisible Majority: Internally Displaced People in Latin America and the San José Declaration Elizabeth Rushing and Andrés Lizcano Rodriguez Chapter 3. The Mixed Legacy of the Mexico Declaration and Plan of Action: Solidarity and Refugee Protection in Latin America Marcia Vera Espinoza Chapter 4. The Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action: A Model for Other Regions Emily E. Arnold-Fernandez, Karina Sarmiento Torres and Gabriella Kallas Part I Commentary: The Cartagena Declaration Regime of ‘Refugee’ Protection Susan Kneebone Part II: The Regime of the InterAmerican Human Rights System Chapter 5. Against the Current: Protecting Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Other Persons in Need of International Protection Under the Inter-American Human Rights System Álvaro Botero Navarro Chapter 6. Refugee Protection and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Melissa Martins Casagrande Part II Commentary: The Inter-American Human Rights System and Refugee Protection Deborah Anker Part III: Regional Responses to the International Regime on Refugee Protection Chapter 7. From the Brasilia Declaration to the Brazil Plan of Action: How was the Goal of Eradicating Statelessness in the Americas Forged? Juan Ignacio Mondelli Chapter 8. The “100 Points of Brasilia”: Latin America’s Dialogue with the Global Compact on Refugees Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Gabriela Mezzanotti and Rachel de Oliveira Lopes Part III Commentary: Regional Responses to the International Regime on Refugee Protection Jennifer Hyndman Part IV: Other Forms of Protection Beyond the Regional Refugee Regime Chapter 9. The Residence Agreement of Mercosur as an Alternative Form of Protection: The Challenges of a Milestone in Regional Migration Governance Leiza Brumat Chapter 10. Trends in Latin American Domestic Refugee Law Luisa Feline Freier and Nieves Fernandez Rodríguez Chapter 11. How Humanitarian are Humanitarian Visas? An Analysis of Theory and Practice in Latin America Luisa Feline Freier and Marta Luzes Part IV Commentary: Other Forms of Protection Beyond the Regional Refugee Regime in Latin America Pablo Ceriani Cernadas Part V: Current Regional Refugees Crisis Chapter 12. Responding to Forced Displacement in the North of Central America: Progress and Challenges Suzanna Nelson-Pollard Chapter 13. Displacement in Colombia: IDPs, Refugees, and Human Rights in the Legal Framework of the 2016 Peace Process Wellington Pereira Carneiro Chapter 14. How the Venezuelan Exodus Challenges a Regional Protection Response: “Creative” Solutions to an Unprecedented Phenomenon in Colombia and Brazil João Carlos Jarochinski Silva, Alexandra Castro and Cyntia Sampaio Chapter 15. No Place for Refugees? The Haitian Flow within Latin America and the Challenge of International Protection in Disaster Situations Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez-Mojica Part V Commentary: Current Regional Refugees “Crisis” Leticia Calderon Afterword: Driving with the Rearview Mirror? Latin America and Refugee Protection Carolina Moulin Annex: Legal Frameworks for Refugee Protection in Latin America Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag Index

Reviews

“It is a very important book… not only because of its quality but also because there is nothing like this in the market in English, Spanish or Portuguese.” • Diego Acosta, University of Bristol “Provides a comprehensive approach to understanding the regional architecture of refugee protection, and the ways in which the history and politics of Latin America make its regimes of refugee protection distinctive.” • Karen Jacobsen, Tufts University

Author Information

Liliana Lyra Jubilut is Professor at Universidade Católica de Santos. She was Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School and Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Law Initiative. She is part of IOM’s Migration Research Leaders’ Syndicate and is Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Adviser for the organization as well. She is also part of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN), from the Global Compact on Refugees, and of the Academic Council on the Global Compact for Migration.

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