242. Biblitoeca Nacional de Chile, Memoria Chilena, Habitantes de las alturas: El pueblo aymara, available at: http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-605.html; and Carlos Choque Mariño, “Los primeros cazadores en América y el mundo andino (del 20.000 a.c al 9.000 a.c.)” in Historia Aymara: cazadores y agricultores, February 17, 2008, available at: http://payaymara.blogspot. com/2008/02/los-primeros-cazadores-en-america-y-el.htm. 243. Constitution of the Republic of Colombia, July 4, 1991, Article 96. 244. These include: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Panama, and Paraguay. See also, Olivier W. Vonk, Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: A Study on Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Americas and the Caribbean, 2015. 245. Constitution of the Republic of Colombia, Article 96.1.b. See also, Vonk, op. cit., 161. 246. Vonk, op. cit., 161. 247. http://www.cancilleria.gov.co/tramites_servicios/nacionalidad/adquisicion. Extending citizenship to the stateless is in accordance with Articles 7 and 8 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child and Article 20 of the American Convention on Human Rights. Cited by the Consejo de Estado in Decision No. 1653, section 3.2. 248. In the late 1930s, immigrants accounted for 0.63% of the population (54418 individuals); in 1973, it dropped to 0.39% (82,848 people) and in 1985 to 0.28% (78,396 people). As reported in Sánchez, Velásquez, and Vidal, “Políticas públicas sobre migración en Colombia,” L. Chiarello (Coord.), Las Políticas Públicas sobre Migraciones y la Sociedad Civil en América Latina. Los casos de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia y México. Nueva York, Scalabrini International Migration Network, 2011, 284. 249. Marissa Esthimer, “Protecting the Forcibly Displaced: Latin America’s Evolving Refugee and Asylum Framework,” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source, January 14, 2016, available at: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/protecting-forcibly-displaced-latin-americasevolving-refugee-and-asylum-framework. 250. IOM Migration profile of Colombia 2012, 45, available at: https://www.iom.int/files/live/ sites/iom/files/pbn/docs/Perfil-Migratorio-de-Colombia-2012.pdf. 251. Migrants in transit in Colombia have been registered to come from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, China, Bangladesh, and Nepal, in Extra Continental Migrants in South America: Case Studies, IOM, Cuadernos Migratorios N.5 (2013), 30, available at: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/ free/Cuaderno5_Migrantes_extracontinentales_AmericadelSur.pdf. 252. See also, Human Rights Watch, “World Report 2015: Colombia,” available at: https://www. hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/colombia. 253. Constitución de la República de Colombia 1821, Título III, available at: http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=13690. 254. Further clarification in terminology, see Vonk op. cit., 24–30. 255. Constitution of the Republic of Colombia. Article 96, enacted July 7, 1991. Article 98. 256. Cristina Escobar, Report on Citizenship Law: Colombia, 1. Research for the EUDO Citizenship Observatory, May 2015, 1–5, available at: http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/35997/ EUDO-CIT_2015_10-Colombia.pdf?sequence=31. BORN IN THE AMERICAS 107

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