Global Migration Governance

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-965380-5
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 623 g

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 politicisation 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, the book brings together a group of the world's leading experts on migration to consider the global governance of different aspects of migration. The chapters offer an accessible introduction to the global governance of low-skilled labour migration, high-skilled labour 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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of international relations, migration studies, and international law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Betts, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Recht, Kultur, Umwelt etc.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Betts, Alexander
Alexander Betts is Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance project, a Fellow of Wadham College, and Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford. 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, Routledge, 2008), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), and Refugees in International Relations (with Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press, 2010). His work has been published in a range of peer reviewed journals.

Alexander Betts is Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance project, a Fellow of Wadham College, and Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford. 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, Routledge, 2008), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), and Refugees in International Relations (with Gil Loescher, Oxford
University Press, 2010). His work has been published in a range of peer reviewed journals.