After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of international politics with a force. The 2018 Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) is the latest and most comprehensive framework for global migration governance. Despite these dynamics, migration is still predominantly framed as a state-centric policy issue that needs to be managed in a top-down manner. This book proposes a difference approach: A truly multi-stakeholder, multi-level and rights-based g...

In migration research, studies on the influence of return migrants on the societies in their home countries are still few and predominantly concentrate on the economic dimension of migration. The literature on democratization has likewise paid only scant attention to the external factors that play a role in the transition of states in the process of becoming more democratic. Cognizant of these lacunae in research on migration and democratization, this book sets out to argue that return mig...

International Organizations (IOs) have been at the forefront of responding to crises in the 21st century, and yet there is little comparative research on how, and how effectively, they have done this.This book fills this gap by exploring what roles IOs take in response to global crises and to what effect. Bringing together a range of international contributors, the book examines a vast array of international and regional organizations, including the International Organization for M...

Dieser Sammelband zeigt die vielfältigen Verbindungen von Migration und Demokratie auf. In Zeiten zunehmender transnationaler Migration stellt sich die Frage nach der politischen Partizipation von Migrantinnen und Migranten auf einer Vielzahl von Ebenen: Im Ziel- wie im Herkunftsland, in der Kommune, durch transnationales politisches Engagement sowie auf der regionalen und globalen Ebene. Die Beiträge des Bandes behandeln eine Vielzahl von Fragen im Spannungsfeld von Migration und Demokrat...