In the context of the growing politicization of migration a debate has emerged in policy and academia on the need to develop global governance on migration to facilitate better inter-state cooperation. This book provides an introduction to the institutions, politics, and normative dimensions of different aspects of international migration

• 1: Alexander Betts: Introduction: Global Migration Governance


• 2: Christiane Kuptsch and Philip Martin: Low-Skilled Migration


• 3: Alexander Betts and Lucie Cerna: High-Skilled Labour Migration


• 4: Franck Duvell: Irregular Migration


• 5: Rey Koslowski: International Travel


• 6: Caroline Oliver: Lifestyle Migration


• 7: Jane McAdam: Environmental Migration


• 8: Gil Loescher and James Milner: UNHCR and the Global Governance of Refugees


• 9: Khalid Koser: Internally Displaced Persons


• 10: Susan Martin and Amber Callaway: Human Trafficking and Smuggling


• 11: Anna Lindley: Remittances


• 12: Alan Gamlen: Diasporas


• 13: Stephen Castles and Nicholas Van Hear: Root Causes


• Conclusion

Alexander Betts is Director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance project, a Fellow of Wadham College, and Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the international politics of migration and refugee protection, with a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of many books, including UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century (with Gil Loescher and James Milner, Routledge, 2008), Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), and Refugees in International Relations (with Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press, 2010). His work has been published in a range of peer reviewed journals.