Spanish abstract: En la agenda de las relaciones internacionales contemporaneas, el estudio de las migraciones ha estado vinculado mayoritariamente a la dinamica de los flujos entre individuos y espacios geograficos del Sur global al Norte global, asi como a estudiar los cambios sociales y demograficos transformativos de entornos migracionales. Sin embargo, la presente investigacion pretende explorar una relacion poco abordada en la disciplina: la migracion internacional del pobre y las “violencias” bidireccionales. Dicho esto, se sustenta que la migracion internacional del pobre es un fenomeno potencialmente catalizador de violencia bidireccional, en la medida en que quien migra en condiciones de vulnerabilidad posee opciones racionales para el uso de la violencia, como tambien las tiene el actor receptor del fenomeno para emplearla, que es quien asume los costos sociales y fiscales. Para efectos del presente articulo, se analiza el caso migracional de africanos pobres a Europa en la ultima decada. English abstract: Regarding contemporary International Relations, the study of migration has been mostly limited to the dynamics of migration patterns between individuals and geographical spaces from the Global South to the Global North as well as to the study of the transformative social and demographic changes of migration environments. However, this research aims to explore the link between the international migration of the poor and the emergence of “bidirectional violence”, which has not been as addressed within the discipline. Accordingly, it is argued that the international migration of the poor is a potential catalyst of the bidirectional violence phenomenon- to the extent that those who migrate in vulnerable conditions have rational options for the use of violence as do the actors “receiving” the phenomenon, who take on social and fiscal costs. The case study of this article is the migration of poor African populations to Europe over the last decade.