On the Way to Cartagena +40: Features of Refugee Protection in Latin America
- Authors: Bogatyreva О.1, Krapivnitskaya E.D.2
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Affiliations:
- Ural Federal University
- Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 73-86
- Section: Social problems
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/0044-748X/article/view/277017
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0044748X25020064
- ID: 277017
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Abstract. The article is devoted to the legal and institutional foundations of the 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees regime. Against the background of modern mass migration flows, the features of the regional refugee and forced migrants protection system are shown. The mechanisms and tools of the Cartagena Process are considered as an innovative model of regional cooperation to address the problems of forced migrants, achievements and ways of improvement in advance of the new ten-year cycle of Cartagena +40. The specifics of the reception and protection of different categories of forced migrants and refugees in Latin America are determined.
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Ольга Bogatyreva
Ural Federal University
Author for correspondence.
Email: olga.bogatyreva@urfu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9451-4285
SPIN-code: 6782-3472
Scopus Author ID: 57103451900
ResearcherId: AAS-1071-2020
PhD, Dr. of Sc. (Historical science), Professor, Department of Theory and History of International Relations
Russian FederationEkaterina Dmitrievna Krapivnitskaya
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin
Email: e.d.krapivnitskaya@urfu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7433-1097
PhD in Law, Candidate of Political Sciences, Senior lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations
Russian Federation, 19, Mira str., Ekaterinburg, 620002References
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