Social Innovation for the Sustainability

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ENVIRONMENTAL DISPLACEMENTS

Miguel Pajares

The environmental disasters that generate the greatest number of displacements are those caused by humans: those caused by the extractive industry, agroindustry and factory farming, and those caused by climate change. The extractive and agro-livestock industry monopolizes huge areas of land and generates pollution that affects even larger areas, forcing many populations to abandon those territories. 

ARTICLE
REMITTANCES IN THE CRUCIBLE OF REALITY: INTERACTIONS, LIMITS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN CONTEXT

Dirk Bornschein

This article reflects on the collateral damage of remittances for countries that are highly dependent on them, using Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras as examples. In practice, what can be considered a paradox occurs, whereby the more people leave the country and the more remittances they contribute to the economy and society, the more difficult it is to turn remittances into an efficient and sustainable source of development. 

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BETWEEN GOVERNANCE, MIGRATION AND RESPECT FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS

Rosario Martínez A

There is a dichotomy between the measures that recognize the positive contribution of migrants and migration management in the economic sphere of the country of origin, mainly. Faced with other measures that represent a reaction to migration and migrants as a harmful and threatening phenomenon for the countries of destination, and with the new migration trends, the vertical border is expanding, and the transit countries are gradually becoming the country of prolonged stay, as is the case in Mexico.