“Globalization and Multiculturalism in Argentina: Indigenous Peoples and discrimination in Public Policies"

RADOVICH, JUAN CARLOS

Dubrovnik, Croacia.

Conferencia; POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE (PSRC) FORUM. "Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization"; 2009

Universidad de Dubrovnik - Centro para la Investigación en Ciencias Políticas (CPI)

This paper attempt to examine official policies in Argentina, related to human rights and multiculturalism and the effect caused over aboriginal peoples and minority groups. The issue of multiculturalism as a policy is a very modern task in the core of Nation/states in Argentina and Latin America as a whole. In the past several years, there has been a spectacular expansion in promoting human rights for minorities groups in Argentina. In keeping with these phenomena, there has been an increasing demand from aboriginal organizations about the ways in which that policies were applied. At the same time, social scientists and others begun to express concern about several issues related to these policies (laws, land tenure for aboriginal peoples, ethnic recognition). Most of the discourses and policies focused on the protection of human rights and related matters have failed although laws and policies developed int the context of democratization were settled to improve the goals of multiculturalism.