International Cooperation on Migration

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

While globalization generates considerable incentives and pressures for countries to join efforts in tackling common problems, the latest surge of populism and isolationism has generated new obstacles to cooperation on migration, particularly in the context of mass migration episodes. This panel examines different dimensions of international cooperation on migration and reflects on the challenges of pursuing cooperation in uncertain times. Our papers shed light on the coordination of health care across international borders, the contribution of international organizations to developing new standards and practices in providing social protection for migrants, the effect that international cooperation on travel security has on global compacts for migrants and refugees, and the way in which the European Union uses development aid strategically as a part of its neighborhood policy to shape the national migration policies of transit countries. Our contributions reveal the ways in which international cooperation in migration management connects with a wide range of policy challenges on a national and transnational scale, such as fostering economic growth, restructuring the welfare state, securing national borders and combatting transnational crime, and ensuring the effectiveness of development aid.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 52: Migration and Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• Transnational Health: Coordinating Care Across International Borders - Erica Dobbs, Pomona College

• International Cooperation: Rewriting the Social (Protection) Contract - Ruxandra Paul, Amherst College

• International Travel Security and the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees - Rey Koslowski, SUNY, University at Albany

• The Politics of EU Migration-Development Aid and Transit States - Nicholas R. Micinski, Boston University

Chair

• Beth A. Simmons University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• Sarah P. Lockhart Fordham University