Video | ‘Comparing Policy Responses to Venezuelan Immigration in Peru and Argentina’ explained by Luisa Feline Freier

In this video, author Luisa Feline Freier introduces the chapter “Immigrants’ Contribution to Development in the Global South: Comparing Policy Responses to Venezuelan Immigration in Peru and Argentina”, written with Ariel González Levaggi. This chapter offers a comparative analysis of national policy responses to Venezuelan immigration in Argentina and Peru from a development perspective in the period 2015-2020, pointing out the importance of state capacity and civil society when thinking about migration and development in the global South.

This chapter is part of the 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy: “Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths”. This issue provides perspectives through case studies from the global South(s) focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on the subnational, national, regional and international levels. Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle (eds.) (2022) Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 14 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.4544, https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4544 (paperback version: https://brill.com/view/title/63268).