APPRECIATION OF THE SITUATION OF THE IMMIGRANT POPULATION IN ECUADOR, BASED ON COGNITIVE MAPS NEUTROSOPHIC

Abstract

Legal norms regulate the situation of migrants. However, at the international level they are primarily responsible for establishing
fundamental human rights, but the normative development of both the United Nations and the ILO focuses primarily on
analyzing the situation of migrant workers on a regular basis, leaving aside the situation of irregular migrant workers. This paper
aims to determine the aspects that most influence to dignify the irregular migrants’ lives in Ecuador. For this end, the Cognitive
Neutrosophic Maps will be applied, which are fuzzy cognitive maps where indeterminacy is included. Cognitive maps are
basically directed graphs where the vertices represent concepts and the edges represent connections between these concepts, in
addition a weight that indicates if there exists a relationship among the concepts are included, and also if those relationships are
direct or inverse. In the case of neutrosophic cognitive maps, the possibility of representing indeterminate relationships is also
incorporated. This study is based on the interview and survey of 60 irregular migrants throughout the country, whose data were
analyzed by three experts.