Continuity or change? Immigration policy in Chile

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dc.contributor.advisorFranceschet, Susan
dc.contributor.authorPando Burciaga, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.committeememberFranceschet, Susan
dc.contributor.committeememberPoliczer, Pablo
dc.contributor.committeememberThomas, Melanee
dc.contributor.committeememberRice, Roberta
dc.contributor.committeememberBonner, Michelle D.
dc.date2020-06
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-21T16:18:55Z
dc.date.available2020-01-21T16:18:55Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-10
dc.description.abstractSince the return to democracy in the 1990s, Chile has become a destination for immigrants from South American countries. Responding to increases in immigration, governments have enacted a series of policies aimed mainly at social assistance and regularization for immigrants. These policies, however, have been adopted without repealing Decree-Law 1094 of 1975 (DL 1094), Chile’s law on immigration, created by presidential decree during the military government of Augusto Pinochet. Far from managing immigration and the integration of immigrants into Chilean society, DL 1094 was conceived as an instrument to securitize immigration policy and keep foreigners out. This dissertation addresses the question of how Chilean governments after the return to democracy have expanded the rights of immigrants when they should have been constrained by DL 1094. The study reveals that such advances have been made possible thanks to a gradual process resulting from the accumulation of small changes as policy actors find gaps and ambiguities and “build around” formal immigration institutions. The policy-making process is analyzed in three distinct venues: central government, municipal governments, and the judicial branch. The study reveals first, that while actors in these three venues have no formal authority over immigration policy, they have acquired new responsibilities and created policies that effectively put boundaries around DL 1094; second, actors recruited into this policy area employ frames that discuss immigration policy in depoliticized ways, arising from each group of actors’ particular venue; and third, this study finds that actors advance policies without dismantling the existing rules, but instead bypass, reinterpret, and build around them.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPando Burciaga, E. (2020). Continuity or change? Immigration policy in Chile (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37483
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/111531
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectChileen_US
dc.subjectLatin American politicsen_US
dc.subjectimmigration policyen_US
dc.subjectinstitutionalismen_US
dc.subject.classificationPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.titleContinuity or change? Immigration policy in Chileen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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