Normativa y Políticas Públicas sobre Inmigración Extranjera en la ciudad de Cuenca Ecuador a partir de la Constitución de 2008

Abstract

The city of Cuenca, as in the rest of Ecuador have arrived foreign immigrants of various nationalities, the situation of human mobility including foreign immigration has been regulated with a rights approach in the Constitution of Ecuador 2008. By description and analysis of legal texts, in this paper a study of current legislation and public policies is done to check the unity, consistency and completeness that exists in the law regarding the regulation of foreign immigration in Ecuador and the particular case in the city of Cuenca, concluding that there is no unity, consistency and completeness in this system because secondary legislation does not fully conform to constitutional principles. The constitutional principles and secondary legislation in turn collect needs of the population, which are revealed through public policies through open interviews, with use of qualitative method perceptions are analyzed in the city of Cuenca of actors involved and engaged in the process of foreign immigration, concluding that, in addition to legal reform to improve the law on foreign immigration, there is a need to implement specific public policies for the city of Cuenca, through plans and articulated and comprehensive projects previously diagnosed the needs of both foreign immigrants and the native.