MIGRATORY CONFLICT

RESOLUTION
PARTIES INVOLVED

Parties pro and against immigration

INTERESTS

Against Immigration: keep and assign all the resources to the

residents of the USA, instead of giving them to foreigners.
Pro-inmigration:
Avoid the neglect of immigrants' rights and duties. This is to
preserve the equality of conditions between the two parties.

CONFLICT

Differences of interest or difficulties to satisfy parties´ needs at

the same time.
The constant flow of immigrants to the borders
POSITIONS DESCRIPTION of the United States, in order to settle in this
country. There are two parties with different
positions towards immigration:
Against inmigration: Pro-inmigration:
Fear and rejection of They recognize the
possible social-economic immigrant's potential Incompatibility perception: Owns aspiration level,
destabilization . for the country's the other's aspirations, and the perception of
growing. integration solutions available.

MOSTLY
Against inmigration: Pro-inmigration: Country
SOLUTIONS development advocates disere
Menace emotions
Contentious tactics: growth by using inmigrants as
provoked by previous
Punishments, preventive actions and human capital
threats. negative experiences with
foreigners. ( collaborative thinking).

For example :
In 2018, The Supreme Court of the United States Severe contentious Tactics
of America approved a law that restricts the ESCALATION increase the conflict
entrance of Muslim , Latin American and Asian escalation.
countries. ( BBC News Mundo, 2018).

Increase in massive marches of the pro-migration

and immigrant partie to demand rights, For Encourage escalation:
example: In 2021 people from Mexico and THE CONFLICT
SPIRAL MODEL Lack of integrative options or
Guatemala walked to the border with the United
States with the intention of requesting asylum power inequality.
(Telemundo News 2021).

.Action-reaction dynamic PERSISTENCE

.Provocative and defensive .Self-fulfilling prophecy
actions perceived as .Group leaders´ own interest
threatening. to continue fighting.

SOLUTIONS FOR EXAMPLE:

Contact and communication can give both parties a The "Organization, Governance" resource by
better understanding of their respective interests and Vinyamata: facilitates and accelerates the negotiation
intentions. Additionally, the intervention of a process of international entities.
mediator, with an external opinion, can be useful.

Bibliography:
BBC News Mundo.2018.La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos considera legal el veto migratorio de Donald Trump a
varios países de mayoría musulmana. Geted from: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-44608203

Farré Salvá, S. (2004). Gestión de conflictos: taller de mediación. Un enfoque socioafectivo, Barcelona: Editorial Ariel
(pp.34-55).

PRUITT, D. G., & RUBIN, J. Z. (1986). SOCIAL CONFLICT: ESCALATION, STALEMATE, AND SETTLEMENT.NEW YORK:
RANDOM HOUSE

Farré Salvá, S. (2004). Gestión de conflictos: taller de mediación. Un enfoque socioafectivo, Barcelona: Editorial Ariel
(pp.34-55).

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