La aparente actualidad en el debate sobre los inmigrantes y refugiados

The present paper analyses whether the roots of the current refugee and immigrant crisis are characteristic of our time. To this end, this crisis is compared with the one that took place in Europe during the 16th century, as a consequence of the ban on vagrancy, more specifically in Spain, in 1545. In that year, a series of juridical dispositions were passed following a movement that spread all over Europe to regulate the asking and giving of alms and to prohibit a custom that, up to that time, was tolerated to a certain extent: vagrancy. Domingo de Soto, a Dominican friar and one of the most prominent members of the School of Salamanca, published a comment titled Deliberación sobre la causa de los pobres (Discussion on the cause of the poor), which was replied soon after by the Benedictine monk Juan de Robles. The controversy gave rise to what was called “The debate on the poor”. The paper also analyses whether the keys to the interpretation of the problem are specific of our time or just a repetition. Finally, although a specific solution is not pointed out —given the dimensions of the problem, that seems impossible—, the paper tries to shed light on the discussion of the different alternatives and possibilities open to this humanitarian crisis.

• Autores: Molero Hernández, Paz
• Fecha de publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional USTA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/39201
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.usantotomas.edu.co/index.php/analisis/article/view/2656; http://hdl.handle.net/11634/39201
• Palabra clave: Debate on poor relief; inmigrants; refugees; Domingo de Soto; Juan de Robles.; filosofía moral y política
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2