Editorial : immigration and human rights

Abstract

The problem of illegal immigration in European countries is no longer an emergency which only concerns governments, but also an issue of widespread social concern. Until now, Europe has not managed to express a strong common policy capable of addressing this phenomenon at its roots. At the basis of this migratory phenomenon lies the ever-broadening gap in levels of development and consequently in standards of living between the North and the South of the world. We are talking about distortions in development which should be addressed at a political level by summoning world leaders to confront the "new invasions" produced by hunger and sickness, by the forgotten wars which disrupt large regions of our planet and by the exploitation by some humans of others, who become the object of new forms of slavery.