Migration Policy in the New Ecuadorean Constitution: Toward the Formation of a Transnational Nation-State

Ecuador's new constitution, approved in 2008, establishes the basis for a new model of the nation-state, characterized as progressively transnational, that attempts to protect both Ecuadoreans living abroad and foreigners residing in the country. It recognizes the right to migrate and the trans...

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Published in:Latin American perspectives 2016-01, Vol.43 (1), p.175-186
Main Authors: Ramírez G., Jacques P., Olavarria, Margot
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
Constitutions
Human migration
Human rights
Humanity
Immigration
Immigration policy
International migration
International relations
Migration
Nation states
Noncitizens
Political migration
Right wing politics
State
Studies
Transnationalism
Voting
Voting rights
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Summary:Ecuador's new constitution, approved in 2008, establishes the basis for a new model of the nation-state, characterized as progressively transnational, that attempts to protect both Ecuadoreans living abroad and foreigners residing in the country. It recognizes the right to migrate and the transnational family and advocates universal citizenship, the free movement of all inhabitants of the planet, and the eventual end of the status of foreigner as an element of the transformation of unequal relations between countries. En la nueva constitución de la República del Ecuador, probada en el año 2008, se sienta las bases de un nuevo modelo de Estado-Nación de carácter cada vez más transnacional que intenta velar por las y los ecuatorianos radicados en el exterior, así como por las personas extranjeras residentes en el país. Reconoce el derecho a migrar, la familia transnacional, ciudadanía universal, la libre movilidad de todos los habitantes del planeta y el progresivo fin de la condición de extranjero como elemento transformador de las relaciones desiguales entre los países.
ISSN:0094-582X
1552-678X
DOI:10.1177/0094582X15586563