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International Migration And Sovereignty Reinterpretation In Mexico, Ernesto A. Hernandez-Lopez
International Migration And Sovereignty Reinterpretation In Mexico, Ernesto A. Hernandez-Lopez
Ernesto A. Hernandez
Recent developments in Mexico's doctrine of non-intervention suggest that national experiences with migrant-sending influence how sovereignty concepts are applied in domestic law. Based on the concept of international sovereignty and included in Mexico's Constitution Article 89:X, the international law norm of non-intervention prohibits a country's foreign relations from interfering in another country's domestic affairs. With traditional sovereignty reasoning, the norm of non-intervention prohibited Mexico from having a foreign policy on its migrants in the US, because the issue intervened in US jurisdiction; such a policy would violate the norm and international sovereignty.
This essay's central claim is that recent developments …