Immigrants' Vulnerability as Subjects of Human Rights

In Harm’s Way: Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement Programs and Security on the US-Mexico Border

“…The MBCS differs from previous quantitative studies that focus on people's propensity to migrate in sending communities in Mexico (Massey, Durand, and Malone 2002;Durand and Massey 2004;Cornelius and Lewis 2007) or border flows (Bustamante 2002). The MBCS allows scholars and policymakers to better understand who is being deported, what they experience during their northward journeys, and what happened while they were processed through the programs that comprise the CDS.…”

Family in Dutch migration policy 1945–2005

“…Migrant women can be perceived -by themselves or by others -as more vulnerable than migrant men are to physical harm, economic insecurity or gossip (Bustamante, 2002; see also : Cook, Emerson & Gillmore, 1983, p. 277;Van der Zwaard, 2000).…”

“…Vulnerability is the subject of a whole field of studies which was developed several decades ago, initially to explain how and why people move in and out of poverty (Beck, 1992;Moser, 1998;Alwang, Siegel, & Jørgensen, 2001;Bustamante, 2002;Hogan & Marandola, 2005). Recently, ideas from the field of vulnerability studies have been applied to migration research (Waddington & Sabates-Wheeler, 2003).…”

Ethical Implications of Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa

“…This surprise is due to the increasing acceptance of assumption such as those reflected by the Commission of Human Rights Report that racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia have been declared human rights violations. 2 As a social issue, such attacks violate the dignity as well as the rights of individuals in this globalized world; their reoccurrence in April 2015 has been a great cause for concern.…”