Citizenship and human rights of Latin American migrants in the context of health care emergency for COVID 19 in Argentina

Abstract

In the context of the emergency caused by COVID 19 in Argentina, Latin American migrants have, for the most part, been excluded from the State’s Emergency Family Income in the face of the closing of borders and Preventive and Compulsory Social Isolation. The objective of this paper was the critical analysis of the reasons that led to this difference in treatment in emergency policies in Argentina. First, (I) it was studied the use of the supposed restrictive criterion of modern citizenship in "universalist" social policies, and also the conception of equality underlies them. In the second place, (II) it was deepened how the recent changes in migration policies, from the DNU 70/2017, led to the precariousness and irregularity of the situation in which the migrants were previously in the emergency by COVID 19 was deepened. Applying a multidimensional methodology, conceptual-philosophical, normative and empirical elements were addressed. By way of general conclusion, the need was raised to rethink models of belonging not limited to nationality and egalitarian, recognizing the rights of every inhabitant and resident, and moving towards new inclusive and multicultural post-national conceptions that can reverse the historical violation of migrants' human rights