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VALENZUELA MORENO, Karla Angélica. The Mexican consulates in the United States: an approach from social protection. Inter disciplina [online]. 2019, vol.7, n.18, pp.59-79.  Epub 11-Dez-2020. ISSN 2448-5705.  https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2019.18.68460.

Consulates operate in very complex ways, among other reasons, due to the fact that they carry on tasks entrusted by their countries, which must be carried out within the territory of a third State, besides the fact that each country has different priorities and agendas for their consular representations. This article is a theoretical attempt to elucidate how the Mexican consular protection works in the United States. The author employs theoretical elements, pertaining to the fields of State-diaspora relations and social protection theory, in order to explain similarities between consular protection and social protection, and shed light to the way Mexican consulates operte their consular protection.

Palavras-chave : consulates; protection for international migrants; Mexico-US migration; diasporas; transnationalism; social protection.