Latin America and Refugee Protection

Regimes, Logics, and Challenges

Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Gabriela Mezzanotti

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781805393191, 9781800731141
• eBook ISBN: 9781800731158
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Immigration Law
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Introduction — Refugee Protection in Latin America: Logics, Regimes, and Challenges
• 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
• Chapter 2 — The Invisible Majority: Internally Displaced People in Latin America and the San José Declaration
• Chapter 3 — The Mixed Legacy of the Mexico Declaration and Plan of Action: Solidarity and Refugee Protection in Latin America
• Chapter 4 — The Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action: A Model for Other Regions
• Part I Commentary — The Cartagena Declaration Regime of “Refugee” Protection
• Part II — The Regime of the Inter-American 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
• Chapter 6 — Refugee Protection and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Part II Commentary — The Inter-American Human Rights System and Refugee Protection
• Part III — Regional Responses to the International Regime on Refugee Protection
• Chapter 7 — From the Brasilia Delcaration to the Brazil Plan of Action: How Was the Goal of Eradicating Statelessness in the Americas Forged?
• Chapter 8 — The 100 Points of Brasilia: Latin America’s Dialogue with the Global Compact on Refugees
• Part III Commentary — Regional Responses to the International Regime on Refugee Protection
• 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
• Chapter 10 — Trends in Latin American Domestic Refugee Law
• Chapter 11 — How Humanitarian Are Humanitarian Visas? An Analysis of Theory and Practice in Latin America
• Part IV Commentary — Other Forms of Protection Beyond the Regional Refugee Regime in Latin America
• Part V — Current Regional Refugees “Crisis”
• Chapter 12 — Responding to Forced Displacement in the North of Central America: Progress and Challenges
• Chapter 13 — Displacement in Columbia: IDPs, Refugees, and Human Rights in the Legal Framework of the 2016 Peace Process
• Chapter 14 — How the Venezuelan Exodus Challenges a Regional Protection Response: “Creative” Solutions to an Unprecedented Phenomenon in Colombia and Brazil
• Chapter 15 — No Place for Refugees? The Haitian Flow within Latin America and the Challenge of International Protection in Disaster Situations
• Part V Commentary — Current Regional Refugees “Crisis”
• Afterword — Driving with the Rearview Mirror? Latin America and Refugee Protection
• Annex — Legal Frameworks for Refugee Protection in Latin America
• Index