Social Innovation for the Sustainability

Items tagged with GLOBAL COMPACT FOR MIGRATION

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GLOBAL MIGRATION GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES

María Jesús Herrera

As the world aspires to rebuild after the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts must be redoubled to ensure inclusive mechanisms that take into consideration the specific circumstances of migrants. All this in an era that should be marked by greater sustainability, equality, and resilience.

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THE GLOBAL COMPACT FOR SAFE, ORDERLY AND REGULAR MIGRATION: AN INSTRUMENT FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL CONTRACT IN THE FIELD OF MIGRATION

Lorenzo Cachón Rodríguez

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved in 2018 despite tensions in the field of international migration policies. The Global Compact supposes a historical achievement towards multilateralism that is inscribed in the logic of the progressive construction of a “world citizenship” (Kant, 1785). This article, after a brief synthesis of the process of formulating the Global Compact and its content, makes an assessment of it showing that, despite some limitations, the Global Compact is a great victory for multilateralism and that it lays the foundations of a “international social contract” (Cachón y Aysa, 2019b), which is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which contains political commitments that states must fulfill, which is a“ bank of ideas for politics ”(Slocum, 2017), and which must be the basis of the international conversation on migration policies. The text points out some dangers that its implementation process has in the “friendly field”: forgetfulness, trivialization, ignorance and contempt. The article ends by defending that the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration is the task of our generation in the immigration field.

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THE GLOBAL COMPACT FOR MIGRATION IN LATIN AMERICA: ON THE BRINK OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

Elena Sánchez-Montijano

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted migration systems globally. In this framework, and particularly, the effects on migration in Latin America are of great magnitude in different dimensions. In this text we ask precisely about this, about the effects of the pandemic on migration in the Latin American region and how these are linked to the lack of national and regional alignment with the Global Compact for Migration.