Comprehensive Approaches in the Global Compact for Migration and the EU Border Policies: A Critical Appraisal
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Date Issued
2022
Type
article
Volume
11
Issue
78
Start Page
59
End Page
84
Journal
Abstract
The quest for safe, orderly and regular migration underpins the UN Global Compact for
Migration (GCM) and translates into “comprehensive and integrated” responses to large movements
of refugees and migrants. The effort to de-compartmentalise the governance of cross-border human
mobility through “comprehensiveness” shapes the overall search for greater policy coherence via
regime interaction and shared responsibility within the GCM. A similar effort has been made at
the EU level to overcome the “silos approach” characterising the distinct policies on migration,
asylum, and border management. This parallelism is particularly meaningful as the reason is
twofold: at the operational level, because of the role played by the EU in fashioning the cooperation
models underpinning the GCM, which enhances the relevance of EU law and practice for the
implementation of the GCM; at the normative level, because the GCM draws on four guiding
principles—i.e., sovereignty, good governance, human-centricity, and the rule of law—which are also
key features of the EU legal system. Departing from these premises, this article reveals the meaning
of “comprehensive and integrated” responses to large movements of refugees and migrants in the
GCM and EU border policies. It does so in order to provide a critical appraisal of the legal and policy
implications of comprehensive approaches in the global and European governance of cross-border
human mobility.
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