Migration is like water": Towards policy establishment "control with a human face". The governance of migration in Argentina

Abstract

The article explores the process of transnationalization of migration policy and the impact it has had the emerging migration governance perspective in the development of the"new immigration policy" inArgentina. It is argued that adoption at state agencies specializing inmigration has been instrumental in the setting of certain changes in way sof thinking and acting on the "illegal immigration". The policy proposes the notion of "control with a human face" to elucidate new forms of migration control and international borders. Through the analysis of the concept oforderly migration, enter edthefield of migration governance with the emergence of a new global regime of control,is to contribute tounderstanding the origin and foundation of some shifts in thinking and exercise international migration controling Argentina today.