Hacia una visión cosmopolita de las fronteras. Desigualdades y migraciones desde la perspectiva de la justicia global

Abstract

The control exercised by States over their borders to prevent the entry of immigrants represents an important normative challenge for an understanding of global justice. Contrary to the dominant trend that has led to the fortification of borders through walls and fences, this article proposes an alternative way of conceiving borders, a way that allows the fluid movement of people and prevents the reproduction of global inequalities. With the aim of ending or at least cushioning the sufferings generated by such persistent forms of structural injustice, we present here a scenario in which the States pool their authority and resources to reconfigure the world economic system and compensate the victims of the lottery for having been born on the wrong side of a border.