Global Policy on Migration

Abstract

Global policy on migration can be defined as the creation of a more or less formal set of norms and rules in a framework of multi-level policymaking by public and private actors, which involves and transcends national, international, and transnational policy regimes, to regulate the movement of people across borders (Betts 2012). During the 1970s and the 1980s, the ICEM expanded beyond Europe with operations that included the resettlement of refugees from Bangladesh and Nepal to Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh War and Indo-Chinese resettlement in 1975. These activities were reflected in the 1980 rebranding of the ICEM as the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration and by the end of the decade, the IOM.