Managing migration in the 21st Century
Keywords:
International migration system, immigration control, movement of people.Abstract
The article argues that the present international migration system has been failing to respond to the new challenges and opportunities that the movement of people now presents in an increasingly globalizing world. In recent years policy making in many countries, especially in Western Europe, has taken place in a climate of crisis management, with lopsided emphasis on reactive and inward-looking immigration control, leading mostly to perverse results. To avoid the deepening migration malaise the study advocates a comprehensive, more predictable and internationally harmonized migration regime, based on the concept of regulated openness. Shared objectives, harmonized normative principles and co-coordinated institutional arrangements are described in some detail as the three main pillars of the proposed regime. The discussion shows how the sending, receiving and transit states —and the migrants themselves— can benefit from such a system, providing the main rationale for the joint endeavor. It concludes with arguments as to why the current concerns for security, however legitimate and justified, should not be allowed to dampen or sidetrack the nascent efforts to establish the proposed new regime.
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