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This article offers a complementary explanation to the diffusion theory that focuses on the process of governance emergence from a top-down perspective. This complementary explanation analyzes the bottom-up processes of diffusion and tested them by studying the policy formulation process in the Mercosur Residence Agreement (RA) signed in 2002. Based on interviews with key actors, documents, and academic literature, this article concludes that the Agreement was mainly the result of the Brazilian and Argentinian negotiations. Brazil needed to boost regional cooperation after the Mercosur crisis, and considered that a joint migration amnesty could have a positive impact in block´s image. However, the Argentinian experience in migration issues allowed for a more coherent policy in the matter. Therefore, I maintain that the mode of interaction in the Residence Agreement negotiations was a bottom up diffusion process that allowed the regionalization of the domestic policies.

MIGRATION GOVERNANCE IN SOUTH AMERICA: THE BOTTOM-UP DIFFUSION OF THE RESIDENCE AGREEMENT OF MERCOSUR