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Extreme Vulnerability Of Migrants: The Cases Of The United States And Mexico, Jorge A. Bustamante
Extreme Vulnerability Of Migrants: The Cases Of The United States And Mexico, Jorge A. Bustamante
International Migrants Bill of Rights Symposium
This paper deals with the notion of vulnerability of migrants, with respect to the realities of two countries, the United States and Mexico. The vulnerability of migrants is understood as a heterogeneously imposed condition of powerlessness. This is based on the premise that migrants are inherently vulnerable as subjects of human rights from the point of their departure as they leave home to initiate their migration. That is, any human being is less vulnerable at home than after she leaves home to become a migrant. The same applies to a sociological extension of the notion of home--a community of origin. …