Table of Contents

Contents:

1 Introduction: the institutions of global migration governance 1
Antoine Pécoud and Hélène Thiollet

PART I INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS: THE
AMBIGUITIES OF MULTILATERAL MIGRATION
GOVERNANCE
2 Bringing about the ‘perfect storm’ in migration governance? A history
of the International Organization for Migration 19
Elaine Lebon-McGregor
3 Managing migration by encompassing the role of the state: the IOM and
the Migration Governance Framework 34
Younes Ahouga
4 UNHCR and the transformation of global refugee governance: the case
of refugee resettlement 50
Adèle Garnier
5 The global governance of labour mobility: the role of the International
Labour Organization 63
Nicola Piper
6 The migration and development nexus and international migration
management: the role of the United Nations Development Programme 76
Giulia Breda
7 A humanitarian agency in global migration governance: the
International Committee of the Red Cross’s migration policy and practice 89
Miriam Bradley
8 Regions and regional organisations in global migration governance 102
Ine Lietaert and Antoine Pécoud

PART II INTERSECTIONS, CONVERSATIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS
IN GLOBAL MIGRATION GOVERNANCE
9 The emergence of a global migration policy conversation:
a retrospective on two mandates of the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011–2017) 119
François Crépeau and Anna Purkey
10 Global encounters: exploring the political foundations of global
migration governance 132
Stefan Rother, Hélène Thiollet and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
11 Making a global compact: the objectives and institutions of the
Marrakesh Compact 146
Elspeth Guild and Kathryn Allinson
12 ‘Workers of the world unite’: unions and immigration, a global history 170
Leo Lucassen
13 At the crossroads of climate and migration governance: institutional
arrangements to address climate-induced migration 186
François Gemenne
14 The gendered governance of migration 196
Laura Foley
15 The governance of migrant smuggling and human trafficking:
institutions and networks 214
Anna Triandafyllidou and Letizia Palumbo
16 Global migration governance: positionality, agency and impact of civil
society 227
Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Raúl Delgado Wise and Aleksandra Ålund

PART III FIFTY SHADES OF GOVERNANCE: FROM PUBLIC TO
PRIVATE, FROM FORMAL TO INFORMAL
17 Detention camps for foreigners and international agreements: two
institutions that shaped European migration history (1945–2020) 250
Olivier Clochard
18 Economic interests and EU border and migration control: from security
hindrances to market opportunities 263
Damien Simonneau
19 Migration and religious institutions: (re) arranging itineraries and imaginaries 279
Sophie Bava
20 The role of Church organisations in global migration governance 297
Mélodie Beaujeu
21 The governance of transnational care chains 312
Rianne Mahon
22 Promoting and restricting marriage migrations: when marriages are not
such a private matter 327
Hélène Le Bail
23 Migration intermediation: revisiting the kafala (sponsorship system) in
the Gulf 341
Claire Beaugrand and Hélène Thiollet
24 The global ordering of remittance flows: formalisation, facilitation,
funnelling and financialisation 357
Anna Lindley
25 From a de facto to a de jure role of local authorities in the governance
of international migration 377
Thomas Lacroix
26 ‘I know, therefore I (don’t) go’: the role of information in migration
decision-making and irregular migration governance 387
Julia van Dessel
27 Is network embeddedness really worth it? Migrant networks as
structures of both opportunities and constraints 406
Flore Gubert

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About the Author

Edited by Antoine Pécoud, Professor of Sociology, University Sorbonne Paris Nord and Institut Convergences Migrations and Hélène Thiollet, CNRS Researcher, CERI/Sciences Po, and Institut Convergences Migrations, France

Reviews

‘This anthology on the institutions of global migration governance is unprecedented in its scope. The editors have created a one-stop resource for scholars, students, and practitioners.’
*David Scott FitzGerald, University of California San Diego, US*

‘The editors of this volume have brought together a formidable set of writers in this field for a collective, comprehensive and critical look at how migration governance plays out on the world stage.’
*Nicholas Van Hear, University of Oxford, UK*

‘From interpersonal networks to global compacts, Pécoud and Thiollet’s Research Handbook on the Institutions of Global Migration Governance offers the first authoritative, comprehensive, multi-level assessment of the institutional field within which the 21st century’s international migrants move, expertly filling a longstanding yet critical gap in the migration literature.’
*Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, US*

‘This book is an invaluable resource for scholars working on migration. By bringing together state-of-the-art research by eminent international scholars, by looking at a range of different types of movements, and by including sub-national and supra-national institutions, as well as national ones, Pécoud and Thiollet have produced a must-go-to guide to the intricacies and challenges of migration governance.’
*Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US*