Multilayered Migration Governance

Abstract

This panel will explore the different levels (global, regional and bilateral) of multi-layered migration governance and understand how their interactions influence cooperative efforts between states to deal with migratory movements. While controlling migration is something we traditionally associate with states and state administration (eg. border controls performed by border guards), not only are there more actors involved but they are also very different actors with different interests, capacities, etc. Equally, we are keen to understand to what extent migration governance goes beyond the control of labour migration and with what consequences. Moreover, the panel proposes to examine migration management through the lens of geographies of control. Current (EU) practices in the field of international migration reflect the fact that borders although axiomatic of where control traditionally takes place, are being supplemented by a variety of practices of control, such as selection of (labour) migrants or asylum seekers with credible claims of persecution that take place elsewhere than at the border. We invite papers that discuss new and perhaps unexpected sites of management in order to reflect on how migration governance impacts traditional notions of state sovereignty and national and international expressions thereof.

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