Deep dive into global migration governance

Two chapters address the issue of global migration governance:

World Migration Report 2020, chapter 11 – "Recent developments in the global governance of migration: An update to the World Migration Report 2018"

The chapter is organized in different sections that respectively cover:

• The development and adoption of the global compacts
  • The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
  • The Global Compact on Refugees (pp. 351-354)
• Complementarity, coherence and gaps between the two global compacts
• How do the global compacts influence the global migration governance architecture?
  • Institutional architecture
• The current phase in the evolution of migration governance: Implications for the future

To learn more:

• Read chapter 11 of the World Migration Report 2020 at pp. 291-310
• Read the World Migration Report 2020 – InfoSheet No. 11 – Global Migration Governance – Update to 2018 edition

World Migration Report 2018, chapter 5 – "Global migration governance: Existing architecture and recent developments"

The chapter is organized in different sections that respectively cover:

Benefits and barriers to global migration governance

Norms and institutions

• Overview of legal and normative architecture
  • Persecution, torture and war
  • Trafficking and smuggling
  • Labour and services
  • Family unity
  • Modes of movement
• Overview of institutional architecture

Efforts to improve global governance (2001-2016)

• Dialogue and consultation
• Mini-multilateralism in filling normative protection gaps
• Migration and other areas of global governance
  • Migration and development
  • Migration and climate change
  • Migration and disaster risk reduction
  • Migration and urbanization

To learn more:

• Read chapter 5 of the World Migration Report 2018 at pp. 125-147
• Read the World Migration Report 2018 - InfoSheet No. 5 – Global Migration Governance: Existing Architecture and Recent Developments