Conflict And Human Rights

Abstract

As explained in Chapter i, in the partial mutual determination relationship existing between globalization and migration, when policies and programs are open and inclusive and recognize human rights, migrants organize themselves in order to improve their living conditions and maintain their transnational political, cultural, social, and economic networks, and this represents positive participation in globalization. On the other hand, when policies and programs are closed and fail to recognize the human rights of migrants, resistance to attacks from the receiving society are expressed through conflict, which can lead to negative participation in globalization if repeated systematically. However, the denial of human rights comes at a price in both the short and long term: social conflict with differing degrees of violence that range from street disturbances and the occupation of public spaces to the creation of economic niches for organized crime and terrorism.