This dossier examines migration as a challenge to governance from various perspectives, to assess how global and local levels interact. The articles, drawn from established academics and younger scholars, highlight issues that push themselves on our agenda. Regardless of our personal and collective preferences, they call for our awareness of layers of governance – their interaction in part uncharted-, abandoning a reflex of control when fellow humans
move to seek a better place on this planet.
The articles in this special dossier introduce the reader to some key issues of relevance to migration governance from a …
Migration governance is at all times, and in all places, a necessarily organisational process. What this means is that governance …
In the past, the government treated undocumented migrants in the Netherlands with considerable leniency. Since the early 90s however, preventing …
For decades, migration governance was relegated to the backwaters of the UN system with informal committees and working groups rarely …
Search and Rescue and disembarkation activities of EU Member States are not covered by a common EU legal framework and …
Recent migratory crises are shedding light on the limits of the global systems of migration governance. These new challenges call …
There is a widespread consensus that the current governance of migration is unsatisfactory, but no consensus on the ways in …
This article describes the ascension of cities as key actors in global cooperation, and their related impact in shaping the …
Immigration and its governance, for many countries across the globe emigration is a far more significant phenomenon. The emigration of …
From the building of walls and fences to the creation of hostile environments for outsiders, few governments have held out …