Migrant Legalization and Rights: Ideas and Strategies from South America > USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Migrant Legalization and Rights: Ideas and Strategies from South America This post is part of a blog series featuring our global conference on April 13, 2021, "Encuentro: Defending Migrant Rights Across the Americas" April 6, 2021 A hemispheric lens on the Americas reveals two contrasting approaches to immigration in the last 20 years. The United States has used punitive immigration policies and collaborated with Mexico to deter immigrants and Central American asylum seekers from entering its southern border. In sharp contrast, South American governments have created migration policies that e...