Migrantes y refugiados en la Agenda de desarrollo 2030: sombras y luces

Interpreting the phenomena of migration and asylum-seekers only through an emergency perspective means avoiding to address the question in a systemic way that could take into account causes and long-term policies to face them. In the International Development field, the silo approach of the past decades led to the establishment of global development agendas that did not even cite migration as a social and economic issue, nor migrants as possible development actors. Fortunately, the Post-2015 Development Agenda adopted by UNGA in September 2015 has given some space to migrants and refugees, recognizing them as a vulnerable category and acknowledging their special human rights. However, the SDGs have adopted a slightly different approach between migrants and refugees, highlighting the dominance of an economic-centred perspective to those phenomena. The aim of this contribution is to focus on the difference between migrants and refugees as addressed in the Agenda 2030, as well as proposing measures to a more human rights-based implementation for those categories.