Human rights, migration and social conflict

Ariadna Estévez, A. Estevez

Current social and political conflicts involving migrants (riots in detention centers, violent protests, support for extremist ideologies, and racially-motivated clashes, for example) are the direct result of the systematic refusal of receiving countries to recognize that migrants have universal human rights. This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and different types of social and political conflict in Europe and North America. Using both theoretical and empirical analysis, the book seeks to establish that if receiving countries were to recognize the fact that migrants have human rights and subsequently abandoned repressive policies, violent conflicts with potentially global impact would not necessarily occur. This analysis serves as the basis for the normative proposal of the...