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No formal, multilateral institutional framework governs the global flow of migrants. National immigration systems — overlaid by a thin layer of international consultation, mostly at the regional level — have fallen short in managing effectively the more “transnational” challenges that migration flows engender, especially illegal migration and the organized crime and smuggling networks that both support it and draw enormous profits from it. Yet no consensus on how to fix or improve the status quo has emerged. Improved international cooperation, rather than greater international regulation, may be the more reasonable objective. Yet there has been no definitive analysis of what specifically greater cooperation should aim to accomplish or the practical forms it should take. The sixth plenary meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration considered how to improve the governance of migration, closely scrutinizing the evidence on the ground and proposing a way forward with practical, gradualist, and organic steps to achieve more effective, multilayered cooperation. Read the Council Statement issued following the meeting.
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Improving the Governance of International Migration
Contemporary states are ambivalent about the global governance of migration: They desire more of it because they know they cannot reach their goals by acting alone, but they fear the necessary compromise on terms they may not be able to control and regarding an issue that is politically charged. Currently, there is no formal, coherent, multilateral institutional framework governing the global flow of migrants. While most actors agree that greater international cooperation on migration is needed, there has been no persuasive analysis of what form this would take or of what greater global cooperation would aim to achieve. The purpose of this book, the Transatlantic Council on Migration's fifth volume, is to fill this analytical gap by focusing on a set of fundamental questions: What are the key steps to building a better, more cooperative system of governance? What are the goals that can be achieved through greater international cooperation? And, most fundamentally, who (or what) is to be governed?
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Prioritizing Integration
This fourth book of the Transatlantic Council on Migration, published by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, takes stock of the impact of the global economic crisis on immigrant integration in Europe and the United States. It assesses where immigrants have lost ground, using evidence such as employment rates, levels of funding for educational programs, trends toward protectionism, and public opinion, focusing on the case studies of five countries in particular: the United States, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. This systematic look at where and how immigrants have been affected by the recession's pinch permits examination of how governments can use the recovery period as an opportunity for more meaningful and targeted investments in integration – ones that will boost economic competitiveness and improve social cohesion. To order a copy, click here. |
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Migration, Public Opinion and Politics
This third book of the Transatlantic Council on Migration, published by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, analyzes how media coverage, public opinion and political rhetoric can play an important role in advancing — or impeding — immigration policy reforms in Europe and the United States. The volume examines what publics across the Atlantic think about immigrants and immigration. It also asks: What effect does media coverage have on the prospects for changing the laws and practices that shape immigration and immigrant integration? And how should politicians and others who champion reform speak about immigration? To order a copy, click here. |
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Talent, Competitiveness and Migration
This second book of the Transatlantic Council on Migration, published by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, maps how profound demographic change is likely to affect the size and character of global migration flows; and how governments can shape immigration policy in a world increasingly attuned to the hunt for talent.
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Delivering Citizenship
This book, published by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, is the first major product of the Transatlantic Council on Migration. It offers insights into key aspects of the citizenship debate from a policy perspective, and is a result of the Council’s deliberations and thinking.
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