Migration in western developed states’ foreign policies: the exclusion of the topic from the human rights agenda
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https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v10i1.78865Resumen
This paper’s goal is to analyze the contradiction between the developed western countries’ discourse in favor of human rights and their foreign policies towards the subject, focusing on immigration. This is done via the analysis of 20 years of diplomatic decisions in Human Rights bodies at the United Nations, resorting to bibliographical and documental sources and using descriptive and explanatory research methods through the application of inductive reasoning. After cataloging and studying the diplomatic decisions of four countries – the U.K., France, Sweden, and Norway –, one can notice that this issue has peculiarities if compared to other human rights subjects addressed by international institutions. Among the results, it can be observed the exclusion of the immigration topic from the human rights agenda, as it is placed in the economic or security ones. And the growing amount of diplomatic and legal instruments against the migrant population lead to the increase of their vulnerability and even, in some cases, to the violation of international law.
Keywords: Immigration; Human rights; Foreign policy.
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