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Shortcomings and/or Missed Opportunities of the Global Compacts for the Protection of Forced Migrants
Author(s) -
Jubilut Liliana Lyra,
Casagrande Melissa Martins
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/imig.12663
Subject(s) - forced migration , refugee , norm (philosophy) , corporate governance , political science , law and economics , business , sociology , law , finance
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration ( GCM ) and the Global Compact on Refugees ( GCR ) are norm‐creating exercises, in the sense of being international legal documents for a new framework that reinforces existing structures and attempt to renew migration governance globally. They were expected to further develop the protection of all migrants. However, despite some progress, there are shortcomings and/or missed opportunities in what they were able to achieve, especially in the case of the protection of forced migrants. Understanding these shortcomings and/or missed opportunities as being conceptual and institutional in nature, and to assess both these sets, this article presents the idea of forced migration and the lack of international protection of forced migrants (part 1), describes the protection of forced migrants achieved by the Compacts (part 2), and ends by assessing the shortcomings and/or missed opportunities in both Compacts (part 3).