Against a background of past, limited examples of international cooperation, and ambitious hopes for extensive future efforts, this volume puts two related questions to the empirical test: under which conditions are states prepared to cooperate over international migration, and what form - bilateral, multilateral, formal, informal - will this cooperation take?

Randall Hansen holds the Canada Research Chair in Political Science at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada.

Jobst Koehler is a Research Officer at the International Organization for Migration in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Jeannette Money is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis in Davis, California.

1. Introduction: Incentivizing Cooperation Randall Hansen, Jobst Koehler and Jeannette Money 2. Making Cooperation Work: Interests, Incentives, and Action Randall Hansen Section 1: North - North Cooperation 3. Mobility within the European Union Andrew Geddes and Jeannette Money 4. Migration Cooperation in Asia: The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement Sarah P. Lockhart and Jeannette Money Section 2: North - South Cooperation 5. Mexico-US Migration, NAFTA and CAFTA, and US Immigration Policy Philip Martin 6. The European Union's Extra-Territorial Immigration Controls and International Migration Relations Andrew Geddes 7. What Government Networks Do in the Field of Migration: An Analysis of Selected Regional Consultative Processes Jobst Koehler 8. International Cooperation and International Migration: An Overview Susan Martin Section 3: South - South Cooperation 9. Interstate Cooperation in Migration Management in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Vincent Williams 10. Managing Migration in Asia: The Role of Interstate Cooperation Rupa Chanda and Sasidaran Gopalan 11. Conclusion Randall Hansen, Jobst Koehler and Jeannette Money