Atores sociais no processo de integração do Mercosul

Abstract

This paper analyzes the situation and prospects of social actors transnational, situated in the context of the construction of a public space alternative, In the process of regional integration in Mercosur. From this central focus, the work dialogues with various themes - globalization, social movements, society "global civil" - that, in some way, permeate the emergence of transnational social actors contemporaries. The multiple themes are summarized in three chapters. The chapter I present the most extensive in general, that relate the effects of the globalization of the world economy changes in the nation state. This broad analysis is justified, to the extent that the appreciation of the concept of civil society (dialectically integrated the concept of State), and the discussions about the emergence of a global civil society or regional (space where social actors act transnational) have as landmark changes in economic policies worldwide. Sections II and III analyzed the dynamics established between spaces and institutional environments of Mercosur and its relationship to social actors. In this analysis is given particular attention to performance of the union movement (in chapter II). In chapter III is highlighted the role of "new social actors" in various institutional spaces generated by the integration process.