Social Innovation for the Sustainability

Items tagged with MIGRATION GOVERNANCE

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GLOBAL MIGRATION GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES

María Jesús Herrera

As the world aspires to rebuild after the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts must be redoubled to ensure inclusive mechanisms that take into consideration the specific circumstances of migrants. All this in an era that should be marked by greater sustainability, equality, and resilience.

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THE GLOBAL COMPACT FOR SAFE, ORDERLY AND REGULAR MIGRATION: AN INSTRUMENT FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL CONTRACT IN THE FIELD OF MIGRATION

Lorenzo Cachón Rodríguez

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved in 2018 despite tensions in the field of international migration policies. The Global Compact supposes a historical achievement towards multilateralism that is inscribed in the logic of the progressive construction of a “world citizenship” (Kant, 1785). This article, after a brief synthesis of the process of formulating the Global Compact and its content, makes an assessment of it showing that, despite some limitations, the Global Compact is a great victory for multilateralism and that it lays the foundations of a “international social contract” (Cachón y Aysa, 2019b), which is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which contains political commitments that states must fulfill, which is a“ bank of ideas for politics ”(Slocum, 2017), and which must be the basis of the international conversation on migration policies. The text points out some dangers that its implementation process has in the “friendly field”: forgetfulness, trivialization, ignorance and contempt. The article ends by defending that the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration is the task of our generation in the immigration field.

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IS "REGULAR" MIGRATION A SAFER FORM OF MIGRATION? THE CASE OF ASIA

Laura Foley / Nicola Piper

This paper examines one key feature of intra-regional migration in Asia: irregularity, and it does so beyond the typical focus on irregular entry by highlighting ‘irregularity in regularity’, that is irregularity as the result of extremely rigidly designed legal pathways for migration. Our analysis, thus, focuses on the wider policy infrastructure that centres upon securitisation and managerialism, with the result of a high incidence of irregularity.