SPP Visiting Professor Luicy Pedroza gave a web seminar at the General Secretariat of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) to stakeholders in the process of social integration in ALADI member states. ALADI is a regional organization comprising 13 Latin American countries and promotes reciprocal trade and the development of economic cooperation.
Her presentation on March 18 dealt with a set of questions from the General Secretariat of ALADI on the mobility of people in Latin America. Themes included the main regional and sub-regional models for mobility in Latin America; key migrant integration schemes in Latin America and their legal bases; examples of agreements that confer citizen rights to migrants versus those that recognize trans-border mobility; convergence trends in Latin America on the adoption of national policies that confer citizen rights to migrants; and social demand for these rights in the region.
Pedroza emphasized the development of different models of mobility rights, focusing in particular on different principles guiding the granting of citizenship rights to migrants in Latin America. She distinguished among several sub-regional efforts and made reference to the diversity of structural conditions that frame them, especially the different migration profiles in South America, Central America, and Mexico. She also highlighted the importance of developing integration schemes that take into account a multidimensional approach of social integration within regional and sub-regional blocs/alliances.
Pedroza made her remarks as part of an ALADI series in which experts address the development of greater social integration in the region. Pedroza will continue to consult for ALADI as the development of guidelines to regulate mobility in the region proceeds.
You can watch her seminar here.