Narrative identity and human rights: A hermeneutical approach to forced migration and artificial intelligence

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  • Francisco Raúl Matus Ramírez School of Law and Social Sciences at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and the Division of Graduate Studies within that same school https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7869-8762

Abstract

This article argues that algorithmic processes of artificial intelligence in migration contexts, particularly ImmigrationOS, suppress the conditions of possibility under which human rights are constituted within the narrative identity of the self as the other. This paper proposes a hermeneutic understanding of human rights, as opposed to theories that seek to establish their foundations, that takes into account the specific historical contexts in which they are experienced and narrated. To understand human rights, this paper analyzes narrative identity (idem and ipse) based on Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical framework, in which the subject recognizes himself as a person capable of acting, narrating, speaking, and taking responsibility for his own actions. It is concluded that forced migration interrupts the conditions for the migrant’s narrative construction, and that the use of artificial intelligence suppresses their narrative distinctiveness, nullifies their capacity for imputation, and denies the relational and institutional conditions that make their recognition possible.

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Author Biography

Francisco Raúl Matus Ramírez , School of Law and Social Sciences at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and the Division of Graduate Studies within that same school

Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophical Research at UMSNH; Master’s degree in Constitutional Procedural Law and Bachelor of Laws, both from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Professor in the School of Law and Social Sciences at UMSNH and in the Division of Graduate Studies at the same institution. Member of the Michoacán Registry of Researchers 2026. His most recent publications are: Article: “The Foundations of Human Rights Based on Ethical Intentionality in Paul Ricoeur,” published in IusInkarri, Vol. 14, No. 18, Lima, Peru, DOI: 10.59885/iusinkarri.2025.v14n18.04; “Dworkin’s Methodology: Iusmoralism and Progressive Liberalism,” published in Pensamiento Jurídico, Bogotá, 2025, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15446/peju; “The Sense of Justice and Rights: Perspectives from Alfonso Villa,” published in Derecho global. Studies on Law and Justice, Year 2026, DOI: https://DOI.org/10.32870/dgedj.v11i32.881.

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2026-10-14

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Vol. 21 No. 57 (2026): Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Ethical Regulation to Protect the Rule of Law | Part I

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