Governos locais pelo Pacto Global para a Migração: iniciativas europeia e sul-americana em paradiplomacia municipal face aos limites jurídicos domésticos e internacionais

The UN General Assembly approved the Global Compact for Migration, a non-binding agreement to improve international cooperation to mitigate the negative impacts of irregular migration. Despite this, many of the voting countries soon withdrew from the Compact. However, local governments in several of these countries, by paradiplomacy, have supported the UN agenda on migration, in contrast to the positions of States. In this sense, the work aims to identify and examine what are the initiatives, in municipal paradiplomacy, regarding human mobility, in South America and Europe, which are in line with the Compact ́s proposals. It is inquired which basis can legitimize them, pointing out the role attributed to local governments by the UN in its current  Doutora em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Professora permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Relações Internacionais (PPGRI) e professora adjunta do Departamento de Direito da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM). Campos Neutrais – Revista Latino-Americana de Relações Internacionais Vol. 2, No 3, Setembro–Dezembro de 2020. Santa Vitória do Palmar – RS. 73 agenda, aiming to investigate the legal obstacles, in international and domestic scope, put to these initiatives for the local realization of the said international agreement.