Impacto de la legislación en materia de migración en la realidad social de inmigrantes centroamericanos en situación irregular en la ciudad de Monterrey (México)

Resumen

This papers aims to provide a socio-legal account of the impact of Monterrey’s legal regulation on migrants and human rights in the lives of thousands of migrants in an irregular situation coming from Central American. On the one hand, the Law on Migration was analyzed from the perspective of the human rights constitutional reform of 2011. On the other hand, a qualitative research was done, finding evidence of the inefficacy of the new law. It is argued that the attainment of the new law objectives’ requires a change in the anti-migrant institutional legal culture