Migration governance: managing the unmanageable? Flashcards
(15 cards)
Why transnational governance? migration as multilayered and boundary crossing
•domestic policy-making
protection of borders, sovereignty, part of the definition of a world of national states
Why transnational governance? migration as multilayered and boundary crossing
•international policy-making
migration policy in one country can have significant impact on countries and citizens of countries elsewhere
Why transnational governance? migration as multilayered and boundary crossing
•regional & transnational policy-making
involving regulatory impulses and framings which shape internal and external responses
Structural conditions of transnational migration governance
• Free trade
- GATS agreements and movement of labour
* Financial flows
Structural conditions of transnational migration governance
• Geo-political/geo-economic position
- Borders, peripheries
* Inequalities and soft economies
Structural conditions of transnational migration governance
• State politics, war & lesser conflict
- Existing mobility
* Areas of low/no state boundaries
Structural conditions of transnational migration governance
• Globally opaque or inconsistent conditions
- Variable – no global structuring conditions
- Unpredictable – patterns are overall clear, but in detail less certain
- Regionally - both variability and unpredictability seem more manageable
Structural conditions of transnational migration governance
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Free trade
Geo political/Geo economic
State politics, war & lesser conflict
Globally opaque
Complexity of transnational governance: cross-cutting interests
Economic and social interests
- Employers: labour recruitment, labour regulation
- Trade unions: protecting domestic, but also international labour
- Sectors: domination within particular regions /countries/sub-regions (agriculture)
Complexity of transnational governance: cross-cutting interests
• Foreign policy interests
- Countries of origin: historical obligations, migration systems, preferences
- Origin/destination relations: recognition of asylum, reciprocal relations, mutual privileges
Complexity of transnational governance: cross-cutting interests
• Local and regional interests
- Borderlands: security concerns; increasing corporate interest
- Destination localities: public services/infrastructure
Complexity of transnational governance: cross-cutting interests
• Domestic security/public order interests
- Neighbours: unstable or much poorer states
- Resident population: ’integration’
- Contentious politics: identity, economic welfare, social rights
Transnational regulatory regimes and frameworks
Refugees
- Regulation by ‘hard’ law & its limitations
- Conventions on rights of refugee: transnational, regional & national regulation (EAC, SADC, EU; New Zealand)
- Convention on human rights: transnational, regional
Transnational regulatory regimes and frameworks
Labour migrants and development
- the co-existence & ‘embeddedness’ of regimes
- Regulation by ‘soft’ programme, practice and institution.
- Regulation by convention (soft and hard law)
Why transnational governance?
Migration governance is crucially
domestic policy-making – protection
of borders, sovereignty, part of the
definition of a world of national states
Migration governance is crucially international policy-making – migration policy in one country can have significant impact on countries and citizens of countries elsewhere
Migration governance may also be regional & transnational policy-making – involving regulatory impulses and framings which shape internal and external responses
