KDEC 9145 - The Laws and Politics of Global Migration Governance

Global migration governance relates to policies, standards and mechanisms developed at the international level by states and international organizations. This course unveils the dynamics and tensions underlying migration governance with a focus on the UN, its main agencies and instruments. It analyses the UN treaties governing migration, as well as the various intergovernmental processes established during the last decade and the role of the UN Global Compact for Migration. After an introduction on the general notion of global migration governance, the course will be composed of three key parts addressing respectively the normative, cooperative and institutional frameworks of global migration governance. The overall objective of this course is to grasp the complexity of global migration governance and develop a critical understanding of the key policy and legal issues at stake.

The evaluation for this course is based on: - class participation (20%): students are expected to actively participate to the course and, in this view, prepare for each session in advance by reading the required compulsory readings- a paper (80%): the topic must be approved by the professor and a list of possible topics will be distributed during the first class. Deadline: one week after the final class at the latest. Word limit: 2'000 words (footnotes included).