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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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 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
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
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Gabriela Mezzanotti is Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. She is a member of the research group in Human Rights and Diversities (HRDUSN) and a member of the Human Rights and Reconciliation in a Post-conflict, Multicultural Society project (NORPART). She holds a Ph D in Social Sciences. She is a lawyer who has coordinated Unisinos UNHCR Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair from 2011 until 2018. Her research addresses critical discourse studies, international human rights law, migration, and refugee law.