Orchestration in global governance: the Global Compacts on migration and refugees

Andrea C. Bianculli, Miriam Bradley, Robert Kissack and Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar

Chapter 15 in Institutions of Global Governance, 2025, pp 282-301 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In December 2018, the UNGA adopted complementary Global Compacts (GCs) on Refugees and for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Both GCs are soft law frameworks that reiterate existing relevant, binding, hard-law obligations and establish new non-binding commitments for international cooperation on a range of issues relating to population movements, refugees and other migrants. A few years previously, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) was incorporated into the UN system, thus constituting a significant change in the regime complex related to migration. This chapter examines how far the GCs have served to reshape global migration governance and, specifically, how the incorporation of global-level institutions has impacted on pre-existing regional migration governance and the functioning of the regime complex as a whole. It does so through two steps. First, it discusses the incorporation of IOM into the UN system and analyses the process through which the GCs were created, explaining how these developments fit within the wider global migration regime complex. Second, it draws on original empirical evidence on the governance of the migration of Venezuelans across South America and of Central Americans through Mexico to the US, to assess to what extent the incorporation of IOM into the UN system has affected the regional governance of migration in Latin America, and how the GCs have been used, interpreted, and implemented by governance actors in the region.

Keywords: Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees; Migration governance; Regional migration governance; South America; Mexico and Central America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035302574
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