Political dispute and government decisions on migration: the turn to the right-wing in Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador

Abstract

The article examines the migration policy implemented in the governments of Mauricio Macri, Jair Bolsonaro and Lenin Moreno. Reviewing the theoretical proposals of 'state thinking' and 'segmenting openness', and through a hermeneutics and socioanthropological perspective and analysis of network of the set of migration regulations issued in the three countries between 2015 and 2020, we observe a setback in the promigrant and rights-based approach that was implemented at the beginning of the 21st century. At the same time, there is a strategic use of Venezuelan migration in the framework of foreign policy and internal struggles for power and ideological orientations and the process of decision making.