@article{2026:trompeterovicent:coproduci,
title = {Co-Producing Rights and Control: Redundancy and Contingency in Migration Governance in Colombia},
year = {2026},
note = {Colombia’s Estatuto Temporal de Protección para Migrantes
Venezolanos (ETPV), adopted in 2021, is one of the most ambitious
regularization programs in the world, granting nearly two million
Venezuelans ten years of legal status, access to social and economic
rights, and a pathway to permanent residence. Strikingly, the policy
was designed and implemented largely by the Colombian Migration
Office, an institution historically oriented toward border control and
security. This article examines how a security agency incorporated a
rights-based logic into its policymaking and argues that the ETPV did
not represent a paradigmatic shift, but a hybrid governance
arrangement produced through the co-production of rights and control.
Drawing on document analysis and interviews with policymakers,
migration officials, and international organizations, the article
shows that the ETPV’s core mechanisms—particularly biometric
registration and long-term documentation—operated redundantly,
simultaneously fulfilling security functions (identification and
surveillance) and rights-based functions (access and integration).
This redundancy stabilized support across actors who interpreted the
same instruments through different institutional logics, while
contingent conditions—particularly the COVID-19 pandemic and the
visibility of mass irregularity—opened a window of opportunity for
such hybrid solutions to emerge. By explaining how rights became
embedded within a security institution without normative convergence,
the article advances theoretical debates on migration governance and
highlights how South–South contexts generate hybrid models in which
protection and control are mutually constitutive rather than opposed.},
journal = {VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee},
pages = {112--136},
author = {Trompetero-Vicent, María Gabriela},
volume = {59},
number = {1}
}