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Incorporating Migrants into the Polity: International Migration, Livelihoods and Sustainable Development

Sat, May 30, 4:00 to 5:45pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

In recent years, many Latin American governments have embraced the migration-for-development agenda and have taken bold steps to establish and maintain links with their citizens abroad; while financial institutions have been driven into a fierce competition to capture a greater portion of global remittances flows. This is taking place at the time of rising anti-immigrant discourses, harsh immigration policies and the criminalisation of migrants in receiving countries (in the North as well as the South).

In the context of Latin America’s population dynamics and sustainable development trajectory, it is clear that there are still large gaps in terms of equity and inclusion of broad sectors of the population. This is especially reflected in the selectivity of the social and economic programmes designed to re-incorporate migrants into the national political agenda. This panel aims to develop a comparative view of these experiences in Latin America. This includes:
i) What are the mechanisms and policies that the state is using to incorporate migrants into the national political agenda?
ii) How have migrants responded to these efforts by their governments? Are they adopting the governments’ channels to be part of the social and economic life of their places of origin or are they using alternative channels to do so?
iii) How does the notion of development implicit in the migration-development discourse/nexus differ from alternative notions of sustainable development such as ‘buen vivir’?.

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