Applications of International Rights Laws and Migrants: Understanding Challenges and Problems

Abstract

Migration is a concept crucial to our understanding in the dawn of deepening globalization and the advance of science and technology. However, this is not a new phenomenon. It is as old as human history. Though migration has both negative and positive implications on human beings, it has emerged in the last few years as a critical political and policy challenge in matters such as integration, displacement, safe migration, and border management. This concept is one of the most debatable facets in international forums, however, the phenomenon of migration encompasses a wide variety of movements and situations involving people of all walks of life and backgrounds and touches all states and people in an era of deepening globalization. In this article, migration is referred as to a movement from one place to another which has both internal and external dimensions. Therefore, though migration in the olden days and nowadays has similarities, economic, social issues, political and governance-related factors, and ecological issues are regarded as its major cause in the contemporary world. This study is, therefore, aimed to examine the most challenges that face migrants in the receiving countries and how international human rights laws have never addressed the concerns and challenges that face migrants inside the boundaries of the receiving state.