Migration governance

Kendall Stiles

Chapter 5 in Understanding Global Governance, 2026, pp 99-127 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Large-scale human migration has been a virtual constant throughout history. Some of the most dramatic movements took place during the 1700s when governments encouraged European migration to the New World along with coerced African migration. European outmigration continued on a large scale until World War II. Migration has also been common in East and South Asia for centuries. In most cases, the great powers played an outsized role, either by directly promoting or coercing migration or by creating conditions that made migration inevitable. In the twentieth century, this mostly involved refugee movements away from areas of war and persecution in Europe and Russia, although since the 1950s most migration has begun in the Global South. The key issues today have to do with Western governments’ decisions about which economic migrants and refugees to accept. Many global rules are ignored in the process.

Keywords: Refugee; Economic migrant; Slave; UNHCR; Populism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035358496
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