Latin America and Refugee Protection

Liliana Lyra Jubilut is Professor at Universidade Católica de Santos. She was Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School and Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Law Initiative. She is part of IOM’s Migration Research Leaders’ Syndicate and is Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Adviser for the organization as well. She is also part of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN), from the Global Compact on Refugees, and of the Academic Council on the Global Compact for Migration.

“It is a very important book… not only because of its quality but also because there is nothing like this in the market in English, Spanish or Portuguese.” • Diego Acosta, University of Bristol“Provides a comprehensive approach to understanding the regional architecture of refugee protection, and the ways in which the history and politics of Latin America make its regimes of refugee protection distinctive.” • Karen Jacobsen, Tufts University

• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsForewordJames C. HathawayIntroduction: Refugee Protection in Latin America: Logics, Regimes and ChallengesLiliana Lyra Jubilut, Marcia Vera Espinoza and Gabriela MezzanottiPart I: The Regime of the Cartagena DeclarationChapter 1. The 1984 Cartagena Declaration: A Critical Review of Some Aspects of its Emergence and RelevanceJosé H. Fischel de AndradeChapter 2. The Invisible Majority: Internally Displaced People in Latin America and the San José DeclarationElizabeth Rushing and Andrés Lizcano RodriguezChapter 3. The Mixed Legacy of the Mexico Declaration and Plan of Action: Solidarity and Refugee Protection in Latin AmericaMarcia Vera EspinozaChapter 4. The Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action: A Model for Other RegionsEmily E. Arnold-Fernandez, Karina Sarmiento Torres and Gabriella KallasPart I Commentary: The Cartagena Declaration Regime of ‘Refugee’ ProtectionSusan KneebonePart II: The Regime of the InterAmerican Human Rights SystemChapter 5. Against the Current: Protecting Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Other Persons in Need of International Protection Under the Inter-American Human Rights SystemÁlvaro Botero NavarroChapter 6. Refugee Protection and the Inter-American Court of Human RightsMelissa Martins CasagrandePart II Commentary: The Inter-American Human Rights System and Refugee ProtectionDeborah AnkerPart III: Regional Responses to the International Regime on Refugee ProtectionChapter 7. From the Brasilia Declaration to the Brazil Plan of Action: How was the Goal of Eradicating Statelessness in the Americas Forged?Juan Ignacio MondelliChapter 8. The “100 Points of Brasilia”: Latin America’s Dialogue with the Global Compact on RefugeesLiliana Lyra Jubilut, Gabriela Mezzanotti and Rachel de Oliveira LopesPart III Commentary: Regional Responses to the International Regime on Refugee ProtectionJennifer HyndmanPart IV: Other Forms of Protection Beyond the Regional Refugee RegimeChapter 9. The Residence Agreement of Mercosur as an Alternative Form of Protection: The Challenges of a Milestone in Regional Migration GovernanceLeiza BrumatChapter 10. Trends in Latin American Domestic Refugee LawLuisa Feline Freier and Nieves Fernandez RodríguezChapter 11. How Humanitarian are Humanitarian Visas? An Analysis of Theory and Practice in Latin AmericaLuisa Feline Freier and Marta LuzesPart IV Commentary: Other Forms of Protection Beyond the Regional Refugee Regime in Latin AmericaPablo Ceriani CernadasPart V: Current Regional Refugees CrisisChapter 12. Responding to Forced Displacement in the North of Central America: Progress and ChallengesSuzanna Nelson-PollardChapter 13. Displacement in Colombia: IDPs, Refugees, and Human Rights in the Legal Framework of the 2016 Peace ProcessWellington Pereira CarneiroChapter 14. How the Venezuelan Exodus Challenges a Regional Protection Response: “Creative” Solutions to an Unprecedented Phenomenon in Colombia and BrazilJoão Carlos Jarochinski Silva, Alexandra Castro and Cyntia SampaioChapter 15. No Place for Refugees? The Haitian Flow within Latin America and the Challenge of International Protection in Disaster SituationsBeatriz Eugenia Sánchez-MojicaPart V Commentary: Current Regional Refugees “Crisis”Leticia CalderonAfterword: Driving with the Rearview Mirror? Latin America and Refugee ProtectionCarolina MoulinAnnex: Legal Frameworks for Refugee Protection in Latin AmericaAlyssa Marie KvalvaagIndex