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Borders, migrations, and fortune

Authors: Velasco Arroyo, Juan Carlos;

Borders, migrations, and fortune

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[EN] Velasco describes the increasing use of fences, trenches, and walls that impede human mobility even though the dilution of the role of the nation-state and its sovereignty can be observed from a global perspective. He argues that these developments (calling for national sovereignty, implementing ever-more restricted border regimes) contradict the idea of the freedom of movement of people understood as a human right of individuals in a globalized world. Instead, borders are creating unjust human relations and inequalities, even standing in a dialectical relationship with justice, which brings into question the legitimacy of (national) borders. Following previous discussions, Velasco shows that borders differentially include or exclude people in an arbitrary way – a process that can be compared to a lottery. Whether one belongs to this or the other side of the border, lives in a rich or a poor country, and benefits from citizenship rights or not, depends on the fortune of one’s place of birth, and is, as explored by the author, disconnected from personal choices and beyond one’s control. In order to rectify the “strange” relationship between fortune and (in)justice, Velasco proposes a world with open borders (rather than a world without borders) in order to overcome the exclusionary character of borders due to the fate of birth.

[ES] En este artículo se describe, en primer lugar, el creciente uso en los últimos años de vallas, fosos y muros en las líneas fronterizas internacionales con el fin de impedir la libre movilidad humana a lo largo del planeta. En segundo lugar, se argumenta que las demostraciones de soberanía estatal que supone la implementación de regímenes fronterizos cada vez más restringidos contradicen la idea de la libertad de movimiento entendida como un derecho humano en un mundo globalizado. Las fronteras nacionales están fomentando además relaciones injustas entre los seres humanos marcadas por una enorme desigualdad entre los países. Las fronteras incluyen o excluyen de manera diferencial a las personas en un proceso que bien puede compararse con una lotería. Si uno vive a un lado u otro de una frontera y desarrolla su vida en un país pobre o en uno rico, beneficiándose o no de unos determinados derechos de ciudadanía, es un hecho que depende en gran medida de la fortuna que haya tenido en nacer en un lugar o en otro. Este hecho, y eso es importante subrayarlo, está desconectado de elecciones personales y fuera del control de uno. Para rectificar esta relación "extraña" entre la fortuna y la (in) justicia, el autor propone un mundo con fronteras abiertas (que no es lo mismo un mundo sin fronteras).

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Borders Studies, International Migration, Global Justice, Luck Egalitarianism

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