Global Migration Governance - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199600457 ISBN 13: 9780199600458

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Unlike many other trans-boundary policy areas, international migration lacks coherent global governance. There is no UN migration organization and states have signed relatively few multilateral treaties on migration. Instead sovereign states generally decide their own immigration policies. However, given the growing politicization of migration and the recognition that states cannot always address migration in isolation from one another, a debate has emerged about what type of international institutions and cooperation are required to meet the challenges of international migration. Until now, though, that emerging debate on global migration governance has lacked a clear analytical understanding of what global migration governance actually is, the politics underlying it, and the basis on which we can make claims about what 'better' migration governance might look like.

In order to address this gap, Global Migration Governance brings together a group of the world's leading experts to consider the global governance of different aspects of migration. The chapters offer an accessible introduction to the global governance of low-skilled labor migration, high-skilled labor migration, irregular migration, lifestyle migration, international travel, refugees, internally displaced persons, human trafficking and smuggling, diaspora, remittances, and root causes. Each of the chapters explores the three same broad questions: What, institutionally, is the global governance of migration in that area? Why, politically, does that type of governance exist? How, normatively, can we ground claims about the type of global governance that should exist in that area? Collectively, the chapters enhance our understanding of the international politics of migration and set out a vision for international cooperation on migration.

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About the Author

Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at Oxford University, Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance project, and a Fellow of Wadham College. His research focuses on the international politics of migration and refugee protection, with a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of many books, including UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (with Gil Loescher and James Milner), Forced Migration and Global Politics, Protection by Persuasion, and Refugees in International Relations (with Gil Loescher, OUP 2010). His work has been published in a range of peer reviewed journals.

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Introduction: Global Migration Governance - Alexander Betts
Chapter 1: Low-Skilled Labour Migration - Christiane Kuptsch and Philip Martin
Chapter 2: High-Skilled Labour Migration - Alexander Betts and Lucie Cerna
Chapter 3: Irregular Migration - Franck Duvell
Chapter 4: International Travel - Rey Koslowski
Chapter 5: Lifestyle Migration - Caroline Oliver
Chapter 6: Environmental Migration - Jane McAdam
Chapter 7: UNHCR and the Global Governance of Refugees - Gil Loescher and James Milner
Chapter 8: Internally Displaced Persons - Khalid Koser
Chapter 9: Human Trafficking and Smuggling - Susan Martin and Amber Callaway
Chapter 10: Remittances - Anna Lindley
Chapter 11: Diaspora - Alan Gamlen
Chapter 12: Root Causes - Stephen Castles and Nick Van Hear
Conclusion - Alexander Betts

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199600457
• ISBN 13: 9780199600458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Betts Alexander