The global governance of migration: Towards a ‘messy’ approach
| Published date | 01 August 2022 |
| Author | Anna Triandafyllidou |
| Date | 01 August 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12931 |
International Migration. 2022;60:19–27.
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INTRODUCTION
Migration has be en intensifying and diver sifying in the last 30 year s and particularly sin ce 2005. Migration reali-
ties have become in creasingly dynamic and c hanging and that has been ref lected also in the scient ific vocabulary
used to study migration. We used to organize our thinking in dichotomous ways, with reference to origin and
destination co untries, and push and pull fac tors. In the last decade, we increasingly study transit countries and
fragmented mig ration journeys with seve ral intermediate stops; we a rgue that most countrie s in the world are in-
volved in migratio n in more than one role (e.g. a s origin and transit, d estination and orig in, destination and t ransit);
and we investigate d rivers, aspirati ons and capacities r ather than adoptin g push- pull, cost- benefit approaches (e.g.
Carling & Sche wel, 2018; Triandafyllidou , 2019).
This paper take s stock of how the main featu res of international migr ation are evolving today to a rgue that our
understa nding and approaches to migrat ion governance are not fit for purpo se. Our models of migration gover-
nance, as exemplif ied in the most recent Glob al Compact for Safe, Order ly and Regular Migration (GCM) ( United
Nations & General Assembly, 2018), are predicated on tight regulation, predictability and risk management. They
Received: 5 Marc h 2021
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Revised: 19 July 2021
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Accepted: 15 Septe mber 2021
DOI: 10 .1111/imig .12931
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE
The global governance of migration:
Towards a ‘messy’ approach
Anna Triandafyllidou
© 2021 The Author s. Internationa l Migration © 2021 Inter national Organiz ation for Migratio n.
Departm ent of Sociology, Facult y of Arts,
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Correspondence
Anna Triandafyllidou, Department of
Sociology, Facu lty of Arts, Rye rson
Universit y, 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3, Canada
Email: anna.triandafyllidou@ryerson.ca
Funding information
Government of C anada Social Scie nces and
Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Canada Exce llence Research Ch airs.
Abstract
This paper engages critically with the emergence of a
global migration governance regime today, particularly
through the Global Compact for Safe Orderly and Regular
Migration (GCM). The paper questions why and how the
global governance of migration is emerging today under
a blueprint that emphasizes orderly, safe, regular flows
when the reality is that most flows are disorderly, unsafe
and partly regular or indeed largely unauthorized. The
paper discusses how t he global governance of migration is
inscribed in the paradigm of risk society and why we need
to go beyond this paradigm acknowledging complexity
and uncertaint y, arguing that we need to rethink migration
governance as messy.
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