National Directorate for Migration
Dirección Nacional de Migraciones

Hotel de Inmigrantes, headquarters of the DNM
Agency overview
Formed1949; 75 years ago (1949)
Preceding
  • Immigration Directorate
JurisdictionGovernment of Argentina
HeadquartersHotel de Inmigrantes
Av. Antártida Argentina 1355
Buenos Aires
Annual budgetARS 8,727 million (2021)
Agency executive
  • Florencia Carignano, Director
Parent departmentMinistry of the Interior
Parent agencySecretariat of the Interior
WebsiteOfficial website

The National Directorate for Migration[1] (Spanish: Dirección Nacional de Migraciones; DNM) is a decentralised agency of the Government of Argentina responding to the Ministry of the Interior which is responsible for handling the country's migration policies.

It was created in 1949, during the first presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, to expand upon the responsibilities of the previously existing Immigration Directorate. It initially operated under the scope of the Secretariat of Labour.[2]

Its headquarters are located in the Hotel de Inmigrantes complex, in the Retiro district of Buenos Aires. In the early 20th century, the Hotel de Inmigrantes served as the first stop for the millions of migrants coming to Argentina from Europe and Asia. Today, in addition to the DNM, the building houses two museums and a cultural centre.[3]

Structure and organisation

The DNM possesses jurisdiction throughout Argentina. In addition to its central headquarters and peripheral mobile units, it consists of 29 offices known as "delegations" (from the Spanish, delegaciones) and 7 additional migration offices. The mobile units are intended for express documentation and minor bureaucratic procedures. With the exception of Santa Fe Province, where the DNM delegation is located in Rosario (rather than its capital city of Santa Fe), delegations are positioned in each capital city, throughout the 23 provinces of Argentina. There are also delegations located in other major cities such as Comodoro Rivadavia, Bariloche, and Puerto Iguazú.[4]

Chief tasks and responsibilities of the DNM include controlling the entry and departure of non-Argentine citizens to and from the Argentine territory, granting residency permits to immigrants, and standardising the documentation of immigrants in Argentina. The DNM consists of seven general directorates: Administration, Immigration, Migratory Movement, Systems and Information Technologies, Technical and Legal Affairs, Institutional and Social Affairs, as well as Migration Information, Analysis and Control.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "UN Migration Agency, Government of Argentina Organize Capacity Building Session Focused on Venezuelans". IOM. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  2. ^ De Cristóforis, Nadia (May 2011). "Los inmigrantes en el primer peronismo: los problemas del ingreso y la integración en el seno de la nación" (PDF). Terceras jornadas nacionales de historia social (in Spanish). National University of La Plata. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Recorrido por el Hotel de Inmigrantes, donde se alojaron muchos de quienes llegaron al país entre 1880 y 1950". Clarín (in Spanish). 20 September 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Delegaciones". migraciones.gov.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Acerca de la DNM". Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 December 2021.

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