Towards a philosophy of migration. Mexico in Chicago: Diaspora

This book is based on the concerns that the author's own coming and going between Mexico and the United States had raised and attempts to show how the lives of many immigrants and their descendants have become transnational and how globalization and technology have shortened the distances and times between two countries that share a border. His interest was to approach what these processes mean in people's daily lives, which are split in two, which has changed the idea of migration in many ways and which, it seems, is moving faster than the theory that pretends to explain it.

This book is intended, from a human rights approach, through a clear and direct language, to sensitize the general population on an issue that not only is currently changing the composition of societies, labor markets, cultural conformation and social fabric, but that given the environmental, political and economic conditions of the world, will be a phenomenon that will not only not diminish or disappear, but will increase. Therefore, it is considered relevant to understand migration, its causes and consequences in order to stop conceiving it as an individual choice, but rather as a product of adverse contexts for the natural human aspiration to live a better life.

The aim is, therefore, to focus on migration in a broad historical and social context and, at the same time, to argue about the role of the State as a reproducer of migrants and to discuss the role of governments in their responsibility as guarantors of basic welfare and protection for the population in their basic needs; in addition to deliberating about the ways in which the receiving societies welcome the immigrant population. Likewise, basic notions such as citizenship (and lack thereof), vulnerability, identity and belonging will be distinguished.

The main objective will be, in this sense, to contribute to broaden the notions we have about migration, and to try to banish prejudices that have been created, in part, due to inexperience with the phenomenon, which lead to xenophobic attitudes or confrontation with the "other". For this reason, we should ask ourselves: what is the future of migration, how can we act as a society in the face of migration?

If this work can lead potential readers to these questions, it will have fulfilled its purpose.