Date of Award

2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

Second Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Alcock, Frank

Area of Concentration

Political Science

Abstract

In 2004 the Argentine Senate passed Law 25,871, the Migration Law, which guarantees the right to migrate by providing avenues for migrant regularization in Argentina. The Migration Law reflects the language of the 2002 Residency Agreement promoted by the Common Market of the South and favors the regularization of regional migrants. Argentina passed the Migration Law prior to reciprocal measures sponsored by neighboring states. This study summarizes the migratory environment in Argentina that led to the Migration Law. The summary includes a legal chronology of Argentina’s migratory policy, the pillars of the state’s foreign policy, and transitions in the presidential administration from 2000 to 2003. The study details the development of migrants’ rights and the right to migrate in the international system. The international and domestic factors that promoted migratory policy reform in Argentina are deduced by comparing the Argentine migratory environment with the environment for migration in Brazil and Chile. The international factors include foreign policy, the state’s role in the regional community, and the state’s participation in MERCOSUR. The domestic factors are reduced to the presidential administration’s party political ideology, the economic environment (preceding migratory reform), the legislative rate of approval of migratory reform, the role of civil society, the rate of immigration, and the structure of the governing bodies to manage migration. The results of the comparisons propose that the Argentine national government succeeded in passing the Migration Law due to the convergence of favorable domestic and international factors.

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