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Global Migration Governance

Author: Alexander Betts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199653805
Published In: September 2012
Format: Paperback , 368 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Contributors are the world's leading experts on migration
Fills a significant gap in the existing literature - this is one of very few books on the international politics of migration

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.

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

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

Edited by Alexander Betts, Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow Stanford University

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.

Contributors:
Alexander Betts is the Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Stephen Castles is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney and Associate Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford.
Lucie Cerna is an Anglo-German Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford, and a Research Associate at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
Franck Düvell, is Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford.
Alan Gamlen is a Post-Doctoral Fellow based at the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford.
Khalid Koser is Associate Dean, Head of the New Issues in Security Programme, and Director of the New Issues in Security Course (NISC) at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
Rey Koslowski is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY), where he is also Director of the Center for Policy Research Program on Border Control and Homeland Security.
Christiane Kuptsch is Senior Specialist in Migration Policy, International Migration Programme, International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Anna Lindley is a Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
James Milner is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton University.
Philip Martin is Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis.
Susan Martin is Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and is Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.
Jane McAdam is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of NSW.
Caroline Oliver is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.
Nicholas Van Hear is a Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford.