aspg-26-1152-1792474958 20261020054238 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group Journal of Social Problems Research JSPR 2995-3200 2022 1 1 I.A.C. Piza Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes. Ecuador The migration issue has been an inseparable part of the international scene since the beginning of the Third Millennium, together with its possibilities for transformation and development. If the regional, national, governmental, and civil society agendas are observed, they all have approaches to the issue of international migration. States have the right to regulate movements across their borders; international cooperation aimed at reducing irregular migration contemplates both a punitive aspect related to law enforcement and a protection and human rights approach. Ecuador is one of the few countries that has the dual quality of sending and receiving migrants. Added to this situation is the reception of displaced persons from other nations, a different but complementary phenomenon to migration, which has made it the first country of refuge in Latin America and lately the country of transit. Based on the analysis through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) multicriteria decision method, it is intended to evaluate the causes of international migration, and focus them on the current context of Ecuador, in the study of an adequate migration policy. 2022 34 44 1152 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/JSPR.010104 https://www.americaspg.com/journal/26/article/1152 https://www.americaspg.com/storage/5203.pdf