Migration in the 2030 Agenda, Development in the Marrakech Global Compact: A Common Program for an Indivisible Relation

Abstract

The indivisible –although complex and non-unique– connection between migration and development, on the one hand, together with the common understanding of States on the need to develop orderly and regular migration management, on the other, are the main landmarks on the evolution that occurred during the last decades at the universal level that have allowed the International Community to build two international consensuses, reached between 2015 and 2018 –The 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and the Marrakech Global Compact on Migration, respectively-, which define the World Program on Migration and Development for the future. However, a third pillar is missing in the Program, a pillar which is both essential, previous and superior to the other two, because it draws the legal regime in force and applicable to the subject matter: human rights. This absence threatens to open the door to several negative effects that the so-called “SDG Washing” would have on Migration Law.