Abstract
Before 2000, migration policies in Ecuador were isolated and minimally executed, due to a lack of organisational articulation, poor financing, and scarce attention to migrants. Overall, state intervention on migration after 2007 was related to a discourse on some sensitive issues: the economic and political crisis that triggered migration in 1999; the need to overcome effects of the aforementioned crisis; and the advent of a new political era in the country, in which economic and social conditions for return would be rebuilt. Thus, in a new narrative, Ecuador is defined as a country to which everyone hopes to return or as a place to settle down, given its economic stability and protection of migrants’ rights. This chapter discusses policies designed to cater for the needs of emigrants and returnees, figures central to the Ecuadorian emigration and diaspora policy.
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Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Humano para las Migraciones 2007–2010 (National Human Development Plan for Migration), Documento de Política Migratoria del Ecuador 2007 (Migration Policy Document of Ecuador), Documento de Política Migratoria para el Buen Vivir 2013 (Migration Policy Document for Good Living), Plan Nacional para el Buen Vivir (National Plan for Good Living 2009–2013 and 2013–2017), and also, more recently created, the Agenda Nacional de Igualdad para la Movilidad Humana 2013–2017 (National Agenda for Human Mobility Equality).
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Within the framework of the PNBN, the Vice Ministry of Human Mobility created the National Agenda for Human Mobility Equality 2013–2017; its implementation is still pending.
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Sánchez Bautista, C. (2017). The Promise of a Welfare State: The Ecuadorian Government Strategy on Emigration and Diaspora Policies Between 2007–2016. In: Weinar, A. (eds) Emigration and Diaspora Policies in the Age of Mobility. Global Migration Issues, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56342-8_5
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