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Book SynopsisDrawing together the work of leading researchers from various disciplines and backgrounds, this illuminating
Research Handbook contributes to a revitalised understanding of migration governance. It introduces novel debates regarding how actors and institutions shape significant migration dynamics.
This erudite Research Handbook features a systematic review of the analytical framework of global migration governance. Chapters identify and explain key institutions involved in global migration, focusing on changes in patterns and actor behaviours. Key actors explored in the Research Handbook include international organisations, migrant networks, civil society groups, smuggling cartels, religious transnational organisations, security firms and trade unions. Ultimately, it aims to contribute to a renewed understanding of migration drivers and proceedings.
Students and advanced scholars of international relations and politics studying topics such as migration policy will find this thorough Research Handbook to be incredibly valuable. Experts and agents of international and non-government organisations will additionally find it to be beneficial.
Trade Review‘This anthology on the institutions of global migration governance is unprecedented in its scope. The editors have created a one-stop resource for scholars, students, and practitioners.’ -- David Scott FitzGerald, University of California San Diego, US
‘The editors of this volume have brought together a formidable set of writers in this field for a collective, comprehensive and critical look at how migration governance plays out on the world stage.’ -- Nicholas Van Hear, University of Oxford, UK
‘From interpersonal networks to global compacts, Pécoud and Thiollet’s Research Handbook on the Institutions of Global Migration Governance
offers the first authoritative, comprehensive, multi-level assessment of the institutional field within which the 21st century’s international migrants move, expertly filling a longstanding yet critical gap in the migration literature.’ -- Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, US
‘This book is an invaluable resource for scholars working on migration. By bringing together state-of-the-art research by eminent international scholars, by looking at a range of different types of movements, and by including sub-national and supra-national institutions, as well as national ones, Pécoud and Thiollet have produced a must-go-to guide to the intricacies and challenges of migration governance.’ -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: the institutions of global migration governance 1 Antoine Pécoud and Hélène Thiollet PART I INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS: THE AMBIGUITIES OF MULTILATERAL MIGRATION GOVERNANCE 2 Bringing about the ‘perfect storm’ in migration governance? A history of the International Organization for Migration 19 Elaine Lebon-McGregor 3 Managing migration by encompassing the role of the state: the IOM and the Migration Governance Framework 34 Younes Ahouga 4 UNHCR and the transformation of global refugee governance: the case of refugee resettlement 50 Adèle Garnier 5 The global governance of labour mobility: the role of the International Labour Organization 63 Nicola Piper 6 The migration and development nexus and international migration management: the role of the United Nations Development Programme 76 Giulia Breda 7 A humanitarian agency in global migration governance: the International Committee of the Red Cross’s migration policy and practice 89 Miriam Bradley 8 Regions and regional organisations in global migration governance 102 Ine Lietaert and Antoine Pécoud PART II INTERSECTIONS, CONVERSATIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN GLOBAL MIGRATION GOVERNANCE 9 The emergence of a global migration policy conversation: a retrospective on two mandates of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011–2017) 119 François Crépeau and Anna Purkey 10 Global encounters: exploring the political foundations of global migration governance 132 Stefan Rother, Hélène Thiollet and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden 11 Making a global compact: the objectives and institutions of the Marrakesh Compact 146 Elspeth Guild and Kathryn Allinson 12 ‘Workers of the world unite’: unions and immigration, a global history 170 Leo Lucassen 13 At the crossroads of climate and migration governance: institutional arrangements to address climate-induced migration 186 François Gemenne 14 The gendered governance of migration 196 Laura Foley 15 The governance of migrant smuggling and human trafficking: institutions and networks 214 Anna Triandafyllidou and Letizia Palumbo 16 Global migration governance: positionality, agency and impact of civil society 227 Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Raúl Delgado Wise and Aleksandra Ålund PART III FIFTY SHADES OF GOVERNANCE: FROM PUBLIC TO PRIVATE, FROM FORMAL TO INFORMAL 17 Detention camps for foreigners and international agreements: two institutions that shaped European migration history (1945–2020) 250 Olivier Clochard 18 Economic interests and EU border and migration control: from security hindrances to market opportunities 263 Damien Simonneau 19 Migration and religious institutions: (re) arranging itineraries and imaginaries 279 Sophie Bava 20 The role of Church organisations in global migration governance 297 Mélodie Beaujeu 21 The governance of transnational care chains 312 Rianne Mahon 22 Promoting and restricting marriage migrations: when marriages are not such a private matter 327 Hélène Le Bail 23 Migration intermediation: revisiting the kafala (sponsorship system) in the Gulf 341 Claire Beaugrand and Hélène Thiollet 24 The global ordering of remittance flows: formalisation, facilitation, funnelling and financialisation 357 Anna Lindley 25 From a de facto to a de jure role of local authorities in the governance of international migration 377 Thomas Lacroix 26 ‘I know, therefore I (don’t) go’: the role of information in migration decision-making and irregular migration governance 387 Julia van Dessel 27 Is network embeddedness really worth it? Migrant networks as structures of both opportunities and constraints 406 Flore Gubert Index
