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Building Human Rights And Development In A Migration Context: The Spanish Case, Ángeles Solanes Corella

Ángeles Solanes Corella

The sheer complexity of migration gives rise to inevitable stereotypes that often hamper any positive analysis of this phenomenon. Many factors contribute to the biased perception that human mobility is mainly driven by economic motives. The ebb and flow of economies and the tyrannical demands of the marketplace seem to override the study of what really motivates migration, and obscure the intrinsic link between migration, human rights and development.

The confused discourse on human development, together with a certain humanist approach to human rights, at times fails to clarify the relationship between human rights and development with migration. Indeed, the …