The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: a kaleidoscope of international law

Chetail, Vincent

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“…46 As Vincent Chetail has astutely noted, "the Compact looks like a kaleidoscope" due to the "complex mix of multi-faceted elements that are constantly changing and create different patterns depending on the angle of the relevant issue and related objective." 47 While the GCM frequently mentions the respect for and the relevance of migrants' human rights, 48 it also lists a number of Objectives that rather focus on effective migration management, the design of "demand driven [and] tailor-made […] solutions" 49 as well as data collection. 50 To a considerable extent, the GCM process is therefore service-oriented, rather than rights-based.…”

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A global view on the Global Compact for Migration – Introduction

Farahat¹,

Bast²

2022

VRÜ

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Ever since the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM or "the Compact") was agreed in November 2018 and eventually adopted by the UN General Assembly, it has sparked heated debate in public and academic discourse. While some praised the GCM as the first internationally consented document ever to comprehensively address all phases of migration (departure, transit, arrival, immigration or return), and essentially regard it as a human rights instrument that complements and strengthens existing obligations under international law, 1 others were more critical. Critique has been raised not only by right-wing populist movements or governments who were quick to (falsely) accuse the Compact of introducing a right to immigration, 2 but also by progressive actors from civil society and academia. For them the Compact entails the risk that states could use it as an excuse to bypass obligations following from human rights treaties, and to introduce further requirements for regular migration, in fact bringing more migrants in a situation of irregularity. 3 * Anuscheh Farahat and Jürgen Bast are members of the WCL/VRÜ's editorial board and have curated this issue. Anuscheh is Professor of Public Law, Migration Law and International Human Rights Law at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Jürgen is Professor of Public Law and European Law at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Jürgen is a PI of the research project "PROTECT -The right to international protection". The project has received funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 870761. 1 See the self-description on the official GCM website: https://www.iom.int/global-compact-migratio n (last accessed on 13 Dec 2021) and GCM, para. 11. This narrative has been repeated in a number of academic reflections on the GCM:

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A global view on the Global Compact for Migration – Introduction

Farahat¹,

Bast²

2022

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“…In so doing, it examines the Compacts' potential to effect improved rights protection for migrants and refugees within the European Union (EU), given the European Union's own legal framework that includes the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). This is not a question of conceiving the Compacts as a binding Treaty or not; there is agreement that the Compacts' commitments are not about creating new obligations (Guild and Weiland 2019;Chetail 2020;Gammeltoft-Hansen et al 2017). Instead, our research focusses on the complementarity of the Compacts with pre-existing legal frameworks in refugee and human rights law, and their role in improving respect for the rights of refugees and migrants (Guild 2019;Guild et al 2017.…”

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The UN Global Compacts and the Common European Asylum System: Coherence or Friction?

Guild

Allinson

Busuttil

2022

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This paper examines the “protective potential” of the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migrants vis à vis existing commitments to fundamental rights within the European Union (EU). The relationship between the two normative frameworks is scrutinised to establish the extent to which the two might be mutually supportive or contradictory, since this determines the Compacts’ capacity to inform the interpretation of EU fundamental rights within the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). This paper explores this protective potential through three of the Compacts’ key guiding principles: respect for human rights and the rule of law, the principle of non-regression, and the principle of non-discrimination. The Compacts’ commitments to the first two are presented as sites of coherence where the Compacts concretely express pre-existing protections within EU law and provide a blueprint for implementation in the migration sphere. However, the Compacts’ principle of non-discrimination reveals an area of friction with EU primary law. It is argued that the implementation of this principle can address the inherently discriminatory system underpinning EU law. Within the EU, rather than undermining international and national human rights obligations, the Compacts present an opportunity to refine the implementation of existing EU fundamental rights obligations applicable to migrants and refugees.

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“…Parte de la confusión se debe a la naturaleza incierta de un «pacto»: antes del gcm y el gcr, la onu sólo utilizó la expresión una vez (con el «Pacto Mundial» de 2000 sobre las responsabilidades sociales de las empresas privadas) y no estaba claro si los Estados que se adherían a un «pacto» asumían compromisos vinculantes. Asimismo, aun cuando no es vinculante, el gcm ancla sus recomendaciones en el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos (vinculante) (párrafos 1 y 2), por tanto puede interpretarse como un compromiso político con los instrumentos de hard law que componen el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos (Chetail, 2020;Guild, Basaran y Allinson, 2019). Con todo, el gcm sigue la pauta dominante en la gobernanza mundial de la migración, según la cual los Estados acuerdan principios, empero sin traducirlos en obligaciones jurídicas-, circunstancia que disiente con los esfuerzos anteriores por adoptar convenciones 5 (vinculantes), mismas que no han sido ampliamente ratificadas (Desmond, 2020;Pécoud, 2009).…”

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Migración, desarrollo y despolitización en el Pacto Mundial para la Migración Segura, Ordenada y Regular

Pécoud¹

2022

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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) was adopted in 2018 under the auspices of the United Nations. In a context in which the global governance of international migration remains weak, and in which states regularly confront migration/refugee crises, the GCM provides an internationally agreed-upon assessment of the political issues raised by international migration and identifies non-binding policy recommendations regarding how governments should address them. This article analyses the content of the GCM in light of the migration-related discussions at the international level since the 1990s. It critically examines its core arguments and argues that, because of the diverging worldviews and interests among governments and other stakeholders, the GCM is marked by major internal contradictions. This results into a depoliticized document and in a political language that hides the dilemmas raised by migration politics. There is therefore little consensus among states regarding the nature of migration and the political responses to govern the transnational mobility of people.

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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: a kaleidoscope of international law

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

A global view on the Global Compact for Migration – Introduction

A global view on the Global Compact for Migration – Introduction

The UN Global Compacts and the Common European Asylum System: Coherence or Friction?

Migración, desarrollo y despolitización en el Pacto Mundial para la Migración Segura, Ordenada y Regular

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