Migrations, human rights and vulnerability

Abstract

The objectives of this article are to analyze from a multidisciplinary perspective the challenges of the human mobility in the age of globalization, the infringement of Human Rights derived from the malfunctions of the channels through which it must disentangle,and to point out alternatives to this context. We delve into the causes of contemporary migrations, paying special attention to the concept of vulnerability, to the conflicts, and to the spaces of generalized infringement of Human Rights. A critical revision is carried out of the politics–juridical instruments that,at a global and regional level, regulate the freedom of circulation that should facilitate a human mobility through legal and safe channels, and the infringements of the rights in the migratory streams while in transit and at the frontier.