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Category Archives: UN HLD
Out Now: Assessments of the #GFMD and the Global Compact #ForMigration – which road from Marrakesh?
More than half a year has passed since the Global Compact on safe, orderly and regular migration has been agreed upon at the end of 2018 in Morocco and New York. Talks about the implementation and monitoring of the compact … Continue reading
Posted in Gfmd, GFMD Civil Society Days, GFMD Government Meeting, GFMD in General, global compact, IAMR, Migration, PGA, UN HLD, WSFM
Tagged Asia, civil society, development, Germany, global compact, human rights, International Relations, migration, mobility, Philippines, social movements, Turkey
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New Special Issue: “Migration, Civil Society and Global Governance” #ForMigration #GFMD
A Special Issue of the journal “Globalizations” has been published on the theme “Migration, Civil Society and Global Governance”. It was guest edited by my esteemed colleagues Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Branka Likić-Brborić, Raúl Delgado Wise & Gülay Toksöz and focusses specifically … Continue reading
Posted in Gfmd, GFMD Civil Society Days, GFMD Government Meeting, GFMD in General, global compact, IAMR, ILO, Migration, PGA, UN HLD, WSFM
Tagged Asia, development, Germany, gfmd, global compact, Global Forum on Migration and Development, global governance, grassroots, human rights, migration, mobility, social movements, United Nations
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Out now: articles on regional ( #ASEAN ) and global governance #ForMigration #GFMD
Two new special issues (SIs) on regional and global migration governance have been published and I had the opportunity to contribute articles to both of them. The first SI is dealing with multi-level “Migration Governance in an Era of Large Movements”, … Continue reading
On a right(s) path? My first thoughts on the Zero Draft of the Global Compact #ForMigration
The zero drafts for the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees are out now, with the compact for “safe, orderly and regular migration” having been being made available earlier this week. The compact is to be agreed upon in a … Continue reading
Posted in EU, Gfmd, GFMD in General, ILO, Migration, UN HLD
Tagged Asia, development, Economic development, global compact, Government, human rights, migration, mobility, refugees, United Nations, USA
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A Global Compact from Below? Civil society issues “Ten Acts” for a compact on human #mobility and #migration
The consultations on the proposed ““Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” are entering into their final phase. The final regional civil society consultation will take place this week for the Pacifc region in Fiji, followed by a stocktaking … Continue reading
Posted in Gfmd, GFMD Civil Society Days, Migration, UN HLD
Tagged Asia, civil society, development, gfmd, global compact, global governance, Government, human rights, migration, mobility, United Nations
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How many international #migrants, how many #refugees? It’s (not that) complicated…
..but how many forced migrants? That’s more complicated. There are 2 numbers everybody has in mind when talking about migrants and refugees: 244 million international migrants, and 65 million refugees and other “forcibly displaced persons”. But how do these numbers … Continue reading
Posted in Gfmd, Migration, UN HLD
Tagged Forced migration, gfmd, internal migration, IOM, migration, mobility, refugees, United Nations
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2017 #GFMD in Germany: Deutschsprachige Beiträge zu #Migration, #Entwicklung und #Demokratie
(With this years’ GFMD taking place in Berlin, I have compiled some of my German language ressources). Im Vergleich zur globalen Debatte wird der Zusammenhang von Migration und Entwicklung in Deutschland eher selten diskutiert.Diese Beobachtung gilt auch für globale Prozesse, Institutionen … Continue reading
Posted in Gfmd, GFMD Civil Society Days, GFMD Government Meeting, GFMD in General, ILO, UN HLD
Tagged Arbeitsmigration, Germany, gfmd, human rights, migration, mobility, Wanderarbeiter
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IOM will join UN System today – but without any rights-based mandate #UN4RefugeesMigrants
At todays UN High-Level Plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants in New York, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) will become a “related organization” of the United Nations. This begs the obvious question: What difference will it … Continue reading
Posted in ILO, Migration, UN HLD
Tagged #Migrants, #MigrantsRights, civil society, development, gfmd, global governance, human rights, ILO, IOM, Migrant worker, migration, NGO, UN migrant worker convention, United Nations
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Will the International Organization for #Migration ( #IOM ) move closer (in)to the United Nations system?
On September 19, the United Nations (UN) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) might sign a new relationship agreement. There are several scenarios regarding the content of this agreement, ranging from the IOM becoming a “UN-related organization” such as … Continue reading
Global #migration and #refugee governance outlook 2016
“2016 has well become THE migrant year”, stated Peter Sutherland, UN Secretary Generals’ Special Representative for International Migration, in a recent webinar. Obviously, migration has been brought to the top of the international agenda for some time now, but this … Continue reading
Posted in EU, Gfmd, GFMD Civil Society Days, GFMD Government Meeting, GFMD in General, Migration, PGA, UN HLD, WSFM
Tagged #Migrants, civil society, development, Geneva, gfmd, global governance, human rights, Migrant worker, migration, NGO, pga, UN migrant worker convention, United Nations
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