Transnational Politics and Migration Policies: Argentines in Spain.

Recent trends in international migration represent a challenge for both policymakers and scholars. New political, economic, social and security concerns have emerged in relation to the movement of people across borders. The transnational activities of private and public actors related to migration have intensified. States have recently developed new mechanisms to protect their citizens abroad, reinforce the links with the home country, promote the immigrant's organization and lobby in the host country, and channel their economic resources towards new initiatives. The issue challenges traditional ideas about sovereignty, national identity, territory, political and economic rights, and space, as well as representativeness and legitimacy of political institutions. This paper analyze the transnationalization of states' policies, focusing on the involvement of the Argentine government in the recent regularization of the status of foreign residents in Spain (within which Argentines are one of the four main nationalities of origin and have doubled their numbers in the last few years). ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]