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<p>Tracing back the roots of the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees, from the Sutherland Report, the New York Declaration, the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the Nansen Initiative, back to the Balkan wars, which led to the Temporary Protection Directive, one can identify two challenges, which combine, especially taking into account increasing mixed migration: One root is the wish to cope with situations of mass influx, when large numbers of people start to move across borders as refugees, displaced people or migrants. The other source is the climate change, which also could lead to migration and displacement of people. These two challenges were brought into a structure by the two compacts. This article describes the development, which led to the compacts, analyses, that the compacts do not create new obligations for the states and new individual rights, but give suggestions how to improve migration management, and shows, what the next steps could be.</p>
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Tracing back the roots of the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees, from the Sutherland Report, the New York Declaration, the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the Nansen Initiative, back to the Balkan wars, which led to the Temporary Protection Directive, one can identify two challenges, which combine, especially taking into account increasing mixed migration: One root is the wish to cope with situations of mass influx, when large numbers of people start to move across borders as refugees, displaced people or migrants. The other source is the climate change, which also could lead to migration and displacement of people. These two challenges were brought into a structure by the two compacts. This article describes the development, which led to the compacts, analyses, that the compacts do not create new obligations for the states and new individual rights, but give suggestions how to improve migration management, and shows, what the next steps could be.

The Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees – origins and effects

Lecturer in Law at the University of Regensburg for immigration law

European Studies

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Tracing back the roots of the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees, from the Sutherland Report, the New York Declaration, the...

The Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees – origins and effects

Online veröffentlicht: 19. Apr. 2023

Seitenbereich: 125 - 140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0032

Schlüsselwörter
Global Compacts, New York Declaration, Sutherland Report, mixed migration, refugees, environmentally displaced persons, non-legally binding framework

© 2019 Michael Griesbeck, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees – origins and effects

Online veröffentlicht: 19. Apr. 2023

Seitenbereich: 125 - 140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0032

SchlüsselwörterGlobal Compacts, New York Declaration, Sutherland Report, mixed migration, refugees, environmentally displaced persons, non-legally binding framework

© 2019 Michael Griesbeck, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Global Compacts, New York Declaration, Sutherland Report, mixed migration, refugees, environmentally displaced persons, non-legally binding framework