Which South American citizenship? Divergences and convergences between rules concerning foreign residents and migratory policies in South America.

• Grant number: 10/09522-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura
• Grantee: Camila Bibiana Freitas Baraldi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The increasing mobility of people strengthens migration as an important element in the dynamic of the international community, which is part of a broader process of transformation of the nation state with impacts on the concept of citizenship. Since modernity, nationality is a condition for the granting of citizenship, which leads to the exclusion of a large number of people displaced from their national territory, to whom the various rights related to the status of citizen are not assured. The legal institute of regional citizenship, inaugurated by the European citizenship, although still far from having consolidated its contours, is the major innovation in this field. In South America, the Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) lists among its objectives the cooperation on migration, harmonization of policies in this area and the progressive recognition of the rights of nationals of a Member State resident in another Member State in order to achieve a South American citizenship. Thus, a careful analysis of relevant legislation related to this issue in each of the Member States is needed, and also the establishment of a dialogue between the results of this analysis and the possible paradigms that can shape a South American citizenship: the paradigm of the market or the one of human rights.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BARALDI, Camila Bibiana Freitas. International Migration, Human Rights and South-american citizenship: Brazilian and South-american regional integration approach. 2014. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI) São Paulo.