Full Description
The growing salience of migration in today's political and economic climate has drawn attention to the relevance of regional responses to global human mobility. This unique book explores the dynamics of migration governance beyond the traditional perspective of the state and examines why, how and with what effects states cooperate at a regional level on aspects of international migration and mobility. Developing an innovative approach centered on the organisation of migration governance, The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance provides a comparative analysis of developments in regional and sub-regional migration governance on a truly global scale.
From Africa, Asia-Pacific and Central Asia, to Europe, the Middle East and North and South America, leading scholars offer a fresh understanding of the trajectories and particularities of regional migration governance. These engaging chapters show how human mobility and its governance can create tensions between states that hinder or prevent cooperation. Providing a much-needed shift from a focus on governance outputs to governance processes, this compelling book highlights how regional practices, processes and structures of migration governance can play an active role in producing understandings of international migration as a social and political issue.
Deploying geographical scope, conceptual insight and empirical depth, this comprehensive book is ideal for advanced students, as well as scholars investigating regionalism, migration and mobility. An acutely relevant work, it will also appeal to professional practitioners and policymakers working in international migration
'This is a unique and forward-looking book that looks at regional migration governance from a dynamic and multi-level perspective beyond formal regional institutions, focusing also on non-state actors. This collection is also unique in that it covers a number of world regions including Asia and Latin America and not just the usual suspects of EU and North America. I strongly recommend this work to students and scholars and, why not, practitioners working in the area of governance, migration, and international relations.'
- Anna Trandafyllidou, European University Institute, Italy
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction: the dynamics of regional migration governance
Andrew Geddes, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Leila Hadj Abdou and Leiza Brumat
2. Regional migration governance: perspectives 'from above' and 'from below'
Sandra Lavenex and Nicola Piper
3. Migration governance in South America: regional approaches versus national laws
Victoria Finn, Cristián Doña-Reveco and Mayra Feddersen
4. Three generations of free movement of regional migrants in Mercosur: any influence from the EU?
Leiza Brumat and Diego Acosta
5. 'Crisis', 'normality' and European regional migration governance
Andrew Geddes
6. The ambivalent drivers of migration governance relations between the EU and Tunisia
Luca Lixi
7. Regional cooperation on migration and mobility: experiences from two African regions
Eva Dick and Benjamin Schraven
8. The politics of migration interdependence in the post-Arab Spring Middle East
Gerasimos Tsourapas
9. North America: weak regionalism, strong borders
Leila Hadj Abdou
10. Between depoliticisation and path dependence: the role of Mexico in regional migration governance in North America
Marcia Vera Espinoza
11. The uneven migration governance of ASEAN
Stefan Rother
12. Regional migration governance in the Eurasian migration system
Andrey Leonov and Oleg Korneev
13. Conclusions
Andrew Geddes, Leila Hadj Abdou, Marcia Vera Espinoza and Leiza Brumat
Index
