People
Pacto para el Futuro de la Humanidad
Migration
As the level of government closest to the people, local and regional governments have been addressing the multidimensional nature and effects of human mobility with limited mandates and often scarce resources. The effects of climate change, persistent violence, growing inequalities and the shortage of pathways for regular migration have a direct impact on the governance of human mobility at the local level.
For local and regional governments, migration and displacement are more than an issue of borders. Beyond trends of workforce concentration, rapid urbanization and growing territorial imbalances, a variety of interrelated factors related to climate change, inequalities and other forms of oppression, expose growing parts of the population to move in extremely harsh conditions, particularly for those groups that have been structurally discriminated for reasons of gender, age, race, religion and other.
Beyond the provision of basic services and the protection of the groups of the population that are more exposed to vulnerability and structural discrimination, municipalities and territories have a key role to play in transitioning from border-centred approaches to a people-centred vision of citizenship, underpinned by a sense of community and the notions of dignity, care, human rights universality, peace, collective memory and belonging, participation and diversity, irrespective of administrative status.
In connection with global agendas on migration governance and in a context of growing but insufficient recognition of the role of local governments in the global governance of migration and displacement, UCLG has taken the responsibility to shape a renewed global commitment in the form of a global charter, the Lampedusa Charter, that puts forward the vision, commitments and calls of our constituency in relation to all forms of human mobility. The Lampedusa Charter will be the culmination of a growing local commitment to a new global narrative of human mobility.
For local and regional governments, migration and displacement are more than an issue of borders. Beyond trends of workforce concentration, rapid urbanization and growing territorial imbalances, a variety of interrelated factors related to climate change, inequalities and other forms of oppression, expose growing parts of the population to move in extremely harsh conditions, particularly for those groups that have been structurally discriminated for reasons of gender, age, race, religion and other.
Beyond the provision of basic services and the protection of the groups of the population that are more exposed to vulnerability and structural discrimination, municipalities and territories have a key role to play in transitioning from border-centred approaches to a people-centred vision of citizenship, underpinned by a sense of community and the notions of dignity, care, human rights universality, peace, collective memory and belonging, participation and diversity, irrespective of administrative status.
In connection with global agendas on migration governance and in a context of growing but insufficient recognition of the role of local governments in the global governance of migration and displacement, UCLG has taken the responsibility to shape a renewed global commitment in the form of a global charter, the Lampedusa Charter, that puts forward the vision, commitments and calls of our constituency in relation to all forms of human mobility. The Lampedusa Charter will be the culmination of a growing local commitment to a new global narrative of human mobility.
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