Description
This presentation explores the geographies of refugee protection in Latin America during the last decade by focusing on the spaces, the politics and actors - as well as the intersection between them - that have shaped responses to forced migration in the region. The exodus of more than seven million Venezuelans has led to significant changes in migration flows and immigration policies in Latin America. But this is not the only mobility across the region and not the only factor that determines the shifting governance of refugee protection. By focusing on the geographies of forced migration, through a regional lens, the presentation unpacks the framing of “multiple crises” that has characterised the responses to it. It does so by linking the spaces where both mobility and governance are taking place, as well as the politics around them, and the negotiation, tensions and agreements that have emerged between key actors. This exercise not only maps emerging patterns of regional forced migration governance, but it also interrogates to what extent the architecture of refugee protection is changing ahead of Cartagena +40
