Judicial Power and Migrant Citizenship in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires: Between Equality and Restriction of Rights.

Abstract

his article addresses the discursive representations of the officials of the Judicial Power of the AMBA (Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires) in relation to citizenship and access to rights of South American migrants. Investigating the point of view of officials implies a way of approaching the understanding of intercultural relations. They are a type of social bond configured by asymmetries and antagonisms that have traversed the history of the Argentine Republic since its constitution as a nation-state. In this writing we focus on the groups of South American migrants, whose relevance began to be noticed in the 1960s. The research has a qualitative approach and the technique used was the in-depth, individual and semi-structured interview. The data produced was processed and analyzed according to the pillars of Grounded Theory. The working hypothesis maintains that the discourses of the officials are organized according to a set of moral and hegemonic codes that favor social domination over South American migratory groups.