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Intra-Regional Mobility in South America: The Andean Community and MERCOSUR

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Despite the increase in migration flows all around the globe, the international system has not developed an adequate normative or institutional response to the challenges posed by this phenomenon.1 It makes sense, then, to study other forms of transnational regulation that have emerged in different regions to respond to cross-border labour migration. The study of regional migratory governance is of special importance since the majority of migration occurs on a regional basis (von Koppenfels, 2001, p. 16). In Latin America, intraregional movements across borders have increased since the 1970s; by 2000, migrants originating from countries in the same region accounted for 60 per cent of all registered migration in South America (Martínez and Villa, 2005, p. 5).

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    Marion Panizzon (Assistant Professor of International Law) & Elisa Fornalé (Postdoctoral Researcher) (Assistant Professor of International Law) &  (Postdoctoral Researcher)

  2. Federal Office for Migration, Switzerland

    Gottfried Zürcher (Former Vice Director and Director) (Former Vice Director and Director)

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    Gottfried Zürcher (Former Vice Director and Director) (Former Vice Director and Director)

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Bernal, N., Prada, M.A., Urueña, R. (2015). Intra-Regional Mobility in South America: The Andean Community and MERCOSUR. In: Panizzon, M., Zürcher, G., Fornalé, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352217_20

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