Local Governments and International Migration in the Global South: a Comparative Analysis of São Paulo and Mexico City

• In Event: .Globalizing cities, migration and the state in Latin America

Abstract

The scholarship on policies for international migration has focused on national policies for
immigration control and immigrant integration adopted in the Global North. Our knowledge of policies
adopted below the national level or in the Global South is scarce. To address both limitations, the present
study offers a comparative analysis of the policies for international migration adopted by the City of São
Paulo (Brazil) and Mexico City. Based on data from official documents, interviews and news articles,
the study concludes that local policies for international migration are strongly shaped by the position of
the local jurisdiction in the world-system, local electoral politics and partisanship

Author

• Felipe A Filomeno, University of Maryland Baltimore County