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16 Global Governance 331 (2010)
Governance of International Migration: Mechanisms, Processes, and Institutions

handle is hein.journals/glogo16 and id is 337 raw text is: Global Governance 16 (2010), 331-343 The Governance of International Migration: Mechanisms, Processes, and Institutions Kathleen Newland This article explains how the global governance of international migration has evolved as a policy issue on the international agenda over the past decade while noting that there is still no consensus on whether global governance is really required, what type of global governance would be appropriate, and how it should develop. The article reviews a series of pol- icy options that have been proposed to fill the governance gap in inter- national migration; namely, to create a new agency, to designate a lead agency, to bring the International Organization for Migration into the UN system, a coordination model, a leadership model, a World Trade Organi- zation model, and an evolutionary model. KEYWORDS: international migra- tion, governance, migration management. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION IS PORTRAYED Si- multaneously as a necessity and an impossibility.' Migration across borders is recognized as one of the pillars of globalization, and most governments rec- ognize that they cannot control it unilaterally. Yet it is still governed almost en- tirely at the level of the nation-state (although sometimes in the context of a regional agreement), and states guard that prerogative jealously. For the past decade, national politicians have engaged in a reinvigorated discussion about the governance of international migration, after having let the matter languish for most of the 1990s. They have been spurred to do so by other stakeholders, including the private sector, human rights defenders, the United Nations (par- ticularly, then Secretary-General Kofi Annan), the public in various countries (their views often exaggerated and sometimes contorted by the mass media), and, most importantly, by growing migrant populations. Yet after a decade of quite intensive activity, it is reasonable to question if the world is any closer to global governance of international migration than it was in 1999. To begin to answer that question, an assessment of the multiple activities of the past ten years is useful, and an examination of what global governance means in practice is necessary. A Decade of Growing Focus on International Migration Attention to international migration in the 1990s was sporadic and largely fruit- less. The Programme of Action formulated for the 1994 International Conference 331

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