The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: An Unlikely Achievement

Newland, Kathleen

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“…The GCM and GCR are relevant norm‐creating exercises in migration governance, as they have tried to take the opportunity of a new scenario in world human mobility trends to develop the protection of all migrants. However, and despite some progress, they were not able to meet the expectations, mainly from civil society, including academia, and what began with severe questions about their feasibility (Newland, ), evolved to high expectations. Then, as the processes developed, they started to be more modest in the sense of “prevent backtracking, affirm reform efforts already underway, and perhaps plant some seeds that could grow in better times” (Aleinikoff, ) in creating a more humane, humanitarian and human rights‐based framework for the protection of migrants, specially forced migrants.…”

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Shortcomings and/or Missed Opportunities of the Global Compacts for the Protection of Forced Migrants

Jubilut

Casagrande

2019

International Migration

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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) are norm‐creating exercises, in the sense of being international legal documents for a new framework that reinforces existing structures and attempt to renew migration governance globally. They were expected to further develop the protection of all migrants. However, despite some progress, there are shortcomings and/or missed opportunities in what they were able to achieve, especially in the case of the protection of forced migrants. Understanding these shortcomings and/or missed opportunities as being conceptual and institutional in nature, and to assess both these sets, this article presents the idea of forced migration and the lack of international protection of forced migrants (part 1), describes the protection of forced migrants achieved by the Compacts (part 2), and ends by assessing the shortcomings and/or missed opportunities in both Compacts (part 3).

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Shortcomings and/or Missed Opportunities of the Global Compacts for the Protection of Forced Migrants

Jubilut

Casagrande

2019

International Migration

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“…The final version of §(h) appears to entail immediate commitments to favour alternatives to detention and commitments to end the practice of child detention in the longer run. As such, it does not reflect the current approach of the international community towards child immigration detention (Muntarbhorn, ) and has been described by scholars as “disappointing” (Crépeau, ; Newland, ).…”

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Immigration Detention under the Global Compacts in the Light of Refugee and Human Rights Law Standards

Majcher¹

2019

International Migration

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The article explores how immigration detention is addressed in the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and investigates the potential implications of the compacts on the existing legal framework regulating the use of immigration detention. While Objective 13 of the GCM largely reflects detention‐related standards under international human rights law, the GCR makes only scarce references to detention in §60. Overall, the compacts risk inhibiting gradual endorsement of the norm of non‐detention of children. On the other hand, they rightly restate the priority for alternatives to detention for adults. States should implement the provisions of the compacts in line with their obligations under international human rights and refugee law. The compacts cannot be used as a pretext to lower domestic detention‐related standards or to diminish the validity of the existing framework governing immigration detention.

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“…En todo el mundo, los Estados han sido reticentes a adoptar normas internacionales vinculantes en una materia tan sensible, que influye en sus estructuras sociales, económicas, culturales y políticas. En este contexto, se firmó en diciembre de 2018 el Pacto Mundial para la Migración Segura, Ordenada y Regular de Naciones Unidas, conocido como Pacto Mundial sobre Migración (Newland, 2018). Pese a que no se trata de un tratado internacional ni tiene carácter vinculante, un conjunto de países se abstuvieron de firmarlo.…”

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La Crisis del Multilateralismo y América Latina

Klaveren¹

2020

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La crisis del multilateralismoA comienzos de la década de 1990, Celestino del Arenal afirmaba la existencia de un nuevo escenario mundial que "poco o nada tiene que ver no solo con el sistema y orden internacional de la posguerra, sino, lo que es más importante, incluso con el sistema y orden internacional general que nace formalmente a partir de la Paz de Westfalia de 1648" (Del Arenal, 1993: 79). Con toda razón, el destacado catedrático español daba cuenta de los cambios que se habían producido en la época y que apuntaban a un orden internacional enteramente distinto. La transición hacia ese orden sería larga y, en realidad, aún no ha cristalizado en un sistema estable y consolidado. Más bien, parecemos vivir en un proceso de cambio constante, donde los nuevos elementos que destacaba Del Arenal -la universalización de las relaciones internacionales, la multiplicación de actores, la crisis del modelo clásico de Estado-nación, el regionalismo, la revolución científico-técnica, la revolución de la información y la emergencia de nuevos mundos-se combinan con factores tradicionales de políticas de poder, hegemonías y crisis económicas, sin que se decante una estructura internacional estable y definida. Todo parece estar en flujo. Ya no hay bipolaridad, pero la multipolaridad que parecía surgir tampoco se ha consolidado, y el sistema internacional se ha bifurcado. Por una parte, subsiste un orden de Estados que interactúan entre sí de manera tradicional y, por otra, se han generado redes de actores transnacionales que influyen en la estructuración de la agenda internacional y que, hasta cierto punto, condicionan también a los Estados. El multilateralismo parecía desempeñar un papel central en este proceso de transición, acordando reglas de funcionamiento del sistema internacional y adoptando acuerdos esenciales en un escenario de globalización.Hasta hace unos años, todo parecía llevar a un fortalecimiento del multilateralismo. Las necesidades de la globalización, la integración de cada vez más sociedades y países a la comunidad mundial, los avances tecnológicos, el impresionante desarrollo de las comunicaciones y la urgencia de enfrentar conjuntamente los grandes desafíos globales -desde la pro-

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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: An Unlikely Achievement

Cited by 35 publications

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Shortcomings and/or Missed Opportunities of the Global Compacts for the Protection of Forced Migrants

Shortcomings and/or Missed Opportunities of the Global Compacts for the Protection of Forced Migrants

Immigration Detention under the Global Compacts in the Light of Refugee and Human Rights Law Standards

La Crisis del Multilateralismo y América Latina

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