For decades, migration governance was relegated to the backwaters of the UN system with informal committees and working groups rarely grabbing the public’s attention. However, the 2015 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, followed by the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) moved migration governance to center stage.be what the Global Compacts are and how they fit with wider migration governance. This is based on my research and fieldwork in my recent book, UN Flobal Compacts: Governing Migration and Refugees. While migration governance remains largely fractured, I show how states negotiated the Global Compacts as non-binding frameworks that bundle and reaffirm rights, while also establishing a path for future global migration governance.