The Mercosur Citizenship Statute
the legal-institutional foundations for building regional citizenship
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https://doi.org/10.36311/2237-7743.2021.v10n1.p55-74Keywords:
Mercosur, Social Mercosur, Regional Citizenship, Mercosur Citizenship StatuteAbstract
The article presents an exploratory study of the Mercosur Citizenship Statute (MCS), with the aim of understanding its limitations and discussing the challenges for the effective implementation of the listed rights. Through a literature review and document analysis, an analysis of the creation of the MCS was carried out through a discussion on the trajectory of the construction of the Mercosur social agenda and the execution process of the Action Plan for the conformation of the Mercosur Citizenship Statute (AP-MCS). In the analysis of the final text of the MCS, the rights and themes covered by the Statute are presented, as well as their thematic and institutional limitations are identified. It is argued that the MCS is the result of a broad process of construction of a social agenda in Mercosur, in which the uniqueness of the intra-institutional articulation in the execution of the AP-MCS deserves to be highlighted. At the same time, given the option of not establishing the MCS in the form of a protocol, the fragility and challenges for its effective implementation are pointed out.
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