scholarly journals The Contested Boundaries of Emerging International Migration Law in the Post-Pandemic

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 349-353
Author(s):  
Ian M. Kysel ◽  
Chantal Thomas
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
The Status ◽  
Transnational Civil Society ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Border Controls ◽  
Activist Movements ◽  
State Responses ◽  
Migration Law

One measure of how and whether the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes the emerging field of international migration law will be the extent to which transnational civil society and activist movements can counteract the intensification of state border controls that the pandemic has triggered. Before the pandemic, transnational efforts to establish a new normative framework for migration seemed to be accelerating. These efforts included new, if non-binding, global compacts on refugees and migration, and new, if modest, efforts at facilitating global cooperation, alongside innovative approaches to scholarly engagement. Such developments arguably contributed to an emerging framework for protecting migrants under international law. Has the pandemic defeated this potential? State responses to the pandemic have eschewed multilateralism, brought migration to a near standstill, and ignored well-established human rights obligations. Moreover, states are poised to deploy a range of new border management technologies and even more assertively manage migration in the name of “health proofing” borders. Yet at the same time, some progressive state practices have emerged alongside a call from the UN Secretary-General to “reimagine human mobility for the benefit of all.” In this essay, we chart some areas of potentially progressive expansion beyond the status quo, noting not only the substance but also the process by which these norms are emerging.

International Migration Law in the Current Legal and Political Reality: Review of Research Handbook on International Law and Migration

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-145
Author(s):  
Tally Kritzman-Amir
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Mental States ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Law

The complex human phenomenon of migration is a challenging one, and throughout history has been considered by many disciplines, including, but not limited to, law, international relations and political science, sociology and anthropology, philosophy, economics, geography and demography and psychology, as well as by multi-disciplinary scholarship. All of this growing body of scholarship has attempted to come to grips with particular aspects of this phenomenon, which has an impact on states, peoples, societies, spaces, cultures, mental states, international organisations and norms.

scholarly journals THE ENDURING VULNERABILITY OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN EUROPE

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clíodhna Murphy
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Employment Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Law ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

AbstractWhile the rights of domestic workers are expanding in international law, including through the adoption of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention in 2011, migrant domestic workers remain particularly vulnerable to employment-related abuse and exploitation. This article explores the intersection of the employment law and migration law regimes applicable to migrant domestic workers in the United Kingdom, France and Ireland. The article suggests that the precarious immigration status of many migrant domestic workers renders employment protections, such as they exist in each jurisdiction, largely illusory in practice for this group of workers. The labour standards contained in the Domestic Workers Convention, together with the recommendations of the UN Committee on Migrant Workers on the features of an appropriate immigration regime for migrant domestic workers, are identified as providing an alternative normative model for national regulatory frameworks.

scholarly journals Introduction to Symposium on Framing Global Migration Law – Part II

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
Jaya Ramji-Nogales ◽  
Peter J. Spiro
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Migration Law

Part I of this symposium on framing global migration law introduced broad conceptual parameters of a new field, looking back to its international law roots and forward to a new orientation beyond the strictures of refugee law. Part II looks to situate global migration law along a range of theoretical dimensions. Jacqueline Bhabha establishes the continuities of human movement in a historical context, modern and premodern. Far from representing a radical departure, the current migration “crisis” is consistent with massive migrations over the ages. Tendayi Achiume considers migration through the lens of colonization and decolonization. Out-migration from Europe was a core economic element of the colonization project; Achiume suggests that contemporary migration from former dependencies to metropolitan powers will correct co-dependencies that continue to advantage postcolonial powers. Focusing Achiume's lens on the problem of human trafficking, Janie Chuang complicates the binary depictions of economic migration that underpin contemporary international law. She suggests that global migration law's grounding in a migrant-centered perspective could help state actors to understand the structural causes of modern-day exploitation, enabling a shift from a crime control approach to a human mobility paradigm.

scholarly journals Conference Report: The Migration Conference 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-467
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Human Mobility ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Conference Series ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The University ◽  
Migration Law ◽  
Over Time

This is a brief reflection on the Migration Conference 2018, the sixth event in our conference series, was hosted by the University of Lisbon, Portugal. The Conference brought together nearly 600 international researchers. The Migration Conference series builds upon the earliest conferences held at Regent’s University London and over time has grown to become the largest global gathering of migration scholars. The thematic tracks in the conference covered various aspects of human mobility ranging from identity issues to remittances and migration law. The audience has also enjoyed the keynote speeches by distinguished speakers including Joaquin Arango from Complutense University Madrid and Ruba Salih from SOAS University of London.

scholarly journals Transnational Mobility, the International Law of Aliens, and the Origins of Global Migration Law

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Frédéric Mégret
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
The Law ◽  
Global Law ◽  
Migration Law

To speak of a “global migration law” is challenging, perhaps even quite provocative, in an era in which walls are being continuously erected at borders and seas transformed into mass graves. The ambition of international law often seems to be to rescue what can still be saved: the refugee regime for example, or minimally decent treatment of migrants once under the jurisdiction of a third country. A global law of migration, then, might be as much if not more the law of obstacles to human mobility than a body of law premised on a more fundamental commitment to freedom of movement.

The Contingency of International Migration Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-198
Author(s):  
Frédéric Mégret
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
The North ◽  
Racial Biases ◽  
Default Position ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
Migration Law

This chapter reviews the complex contingency of international migration law. Freedom of movement was once the default position in international law, only to give way to a system that took it for granted that sovereignty entails the ability to restrict immigration. This startling transition is one that is largely forgotten and even at the time was hardly argued for, revealing an apparent case of ‘false necessity’ in which the law could seemingly have gone either way. In further prodding that transition, however, the chapter suggests that one should not fall into the trap of ‘false contingency’. The move to a concept of restrictive migration was, in fact, deeply conditioned by liberal international law’s obliviousness to its own imperial and racial biases. Understanding international law’s evolution requires us to understand how it absorbed imperial laws’ own experimentations with coerced and asymmetric mobility and the crumbling of Empires as spaces of imagined internal movement, notably as Southern bodies sought to move to the North. This can help us reexplore some of international law’s own earlier hesitations about transnational freedom of movement and develop an appreciation of how the flexibility of international legal discourse prepared the ground for exclusions to come. Reimagining the international law of migration would thus entail a radical reassessment of these imperial and racial biases.

scholarly journals Derecho(s) y política migratoria en México. Sonora y Guanajuato ante la migración

Revista Trace ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Miguel Vilches Hinojosa
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Law ◽  
Nous Examinons ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Law ◽  
State Territory

Este trabajo propone una distinción analítica entre derecho y política migratoria dentro del contexto de la migración México- Estados Unidos y analiza la visión dominante de las políticas migratorias que enfatizan la seguridad y la soberanía. Sobre esta base, se examina el derecho que enmarca las políticas migratorias de dos entidades federativas en México: Guanajuato y Sonora. Las diferencias entre éstas dependen de la realidad social de las migraciones transcurridas en cada territorio estatal, pero además obedecen a rupturas en los enfoques jurídico-políticos bajo los que se diseñan las estrategias migratorias en México; de estas entidades, una por lo menos, lanza un reto a la manera tradicional de atender la migración internacional. El trabajo concluye con planteamientos que intentan marcar sendas para continuar los estudios de política y derecho migratorio.Abstract: This work proposes an analytical distinction between law and migration policy in the context of Mexico-USA and analyses the prevailing approach about migration policies that emphasize the security and sovereignty. On this basis, we examine the law that frames the migration policies of two states in Mexico: Guanajuato and Sonora. The differences between them, depends on the social reality of migrations that occur in each state territory, but also them are due to breaks in the legal and political approaches that are designed under the migration policies in Mexico and at least one of them launches a challenge to the traditional way of understanding international migration. The paper closes with conclusions that try to outline ways to further research and studies about migration law and migration policy.Résumé : Cet article propose une distinction analytique entre le droit et la politique migratoire dans le contexte de la migration du Mexique vers les États-Unis et analyse l’approche dominante des politiques migratoires qui mettent l’accent sur la sécurité et la souveraineté. Sur cette base, nous examinons la normativité qui encadre les politiques migratoires de deux états mexicains : Guanajuato et Sonora. La différence entre les deux situations dépend de la réalité sociale des migrations qui se produisent dans chacun de ces états mais découle aussi de ruptures dans les approches juridiques et politiques conçues dans le cadre des politiques migratoires au Mexique. Un de ces états lance d’ailleurs un défi à la façon traditionnelle d’aborder les migrations internationales. Le document se termine par des conclusions qui tentent d’esquisser des pistes pour la poursuite des études sur le droit et les politiques migratoires.

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