Migrants’ human rights in local administrations: an analysis based on the concept of ‘abnormal justice’ and situational strategic planning

Abstract

This paper assembles two theoretical-methodological proposals to analyze local government initiatives on immigration issues: situational strategic planning and the justice analysis model with the category of abnormal justice. The implementation of this analysis is carried out from the systematization and presentation of findings from an investigation carried out in 2023 on local governments in South America that carried out initiatives to protect the rights of migrants, in relation to the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration. Although migration policy is established at the national level, subnational administrations have room to act in an innovative way in matters of migration and human rights, making use of social policies, territorial devices and the political will expressed in institutional practices. Thus, they also manage to mitigate or counteract exclusive requirements or restrictive criteria of national governments.

Received: 23 October 2024 
Accepted: 06 February 2025