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When the stars aligned: ideational strategic alliances and the critical juncture of Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law

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  • Susanne Melde
  • Luisa Feline Freier

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Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law spearheaded rights-based immigration policy reforms across Latin America. To deconstruct the policy process that enabled the passing of this ‘revolutionary’ law, we apply a mixed qualitative approach, based on secondary literature, and the analysis of 80 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders. We argue that both structural and contingent regime dynamics shaped a window of opportunity for the reform to take place. We further show how key actors amongst civil society organisations, the executive and the legislative branches formed multi-sectoral coalitions and strategic alliances to turn this policy window into a critical juncture of lasting policy change. Ultimately, legislative reform was successful because it was framed as a human right, and not as an immigration issue. The paper contributes to scholarship on immigration policy determinants, ideational strategic alliances, policy windows and critical junctures.

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  • Susanne Melde & Luisa Feline Freier, 2022. "When the stars aligned: ideational strategic alliances and the critical juncture of Argentina’s 2004 Migration Law," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(7), pages 1531-1550, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:43:y:2022:i:7:p:1531-1550
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2081145
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