Unemployment and migration: digital platforms as a labor alternative and the jurisdictional protection of the hidden labor contract in Colombia and Mexico

Abstract

This research article seeks to understand how migration processes put the migrant population in a situation of greater vulnerability, and thus evaluate how digital home platforms benefit from high unemployment rates and especially vulnerability of migrants to use their workforce without guaranteeing their labor human rights in Colombia and Mexico. For this, a sociological study of the migratory dynamics in Mexico and Colombia is carried out, the international regulations on labor human rights and judicial sentences that protect labor rights on the formalisms that conceal the labor relationship are analyzed, and the operation of some delivery platforms and how the employment relationship is concealed with artificial intelligence systems and punishments and rewards, violating the labor rights of the delivery drivers.