Globalizing Migration Regimes: New Challenges to Transnational Cooperation

Joakim Palme, Kristof Tamas

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Dec 28, 2012 - Social Science - 346 pages

It has been half a century since the Geneva Refugee Convention came into place, but there is still no comparable international regime which provides for the increasing phenomenon of mobile economic migrants. At a time of global mobility, when migration policies are constantly changing and the security and rights of migrants are called into question, there is clearly a need for strengthened international cooperation. This volume brings together an international team of authors to examine the prospects for improvements in such cooperation and for the establishment of a framework of basic global or regional norms of conduct.

Issues addressed in the book include how to augment the development effects of migration for source countries, how to meet the security and rights interests of both states and migrants and how to improve the prospects for integration of migrants in destination countries.

With its fresh, policy-focused and global approach, this volume will be of great value to both academics and policy-makers.

About the author

Kristof Tamas is a Research Consultant at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, Sweden. Joakim Palme is Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden, and Professor (adjunct) at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden. He is currently directing a research programme which aims at providing new insights on how to reform social institutions in ageing societies. This includes traditional social policy programs as well as labour market and migration policies.

Contributors: Kristof Tamas, Joakim Palme, Peggy Levitt, Bo Malmberg, J.P. Sevilla, Bhargavi Ramamurthyt, Ninna Nyberg Sorensen, Sabina Alkire, Lincoln Chen, Delanyo Dovlo, Melissa Lane, Rainer Baubock, Luca Einaudi, Torbjorn Lundqvist, Patcharawalai Wongboonsin, John O. Oucho, Robert Holzmann, Rainer Manz, Robert L. Bach, Rey Koslowski.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Globalizing Migration Regimes: New Challenges to Transnational Cooperation; Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series
• Editors: Joakim Palme, Kristof Tamas
• Contributor: Professor Maykel Verkuyten
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012
• ISBN: 1409490890, 9781409490890
• Length: 346 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration