Description: Covers all things Global Migration Governance since 2010 - the GFMD, the Global Compacts, the ILO domestic worker convention, the World Social Forums on Migration and the UN High-Level Dialogues on Migration. A blog by Stefan Rother
The “Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society” in #SoutheastAsia has just been published. These handbooks usually provide a very comprehensive overview of the field – but on the downside tend to be very pricey (175 pounds for the printed version in this case). Therefore it is great, that the whole book can be downloaded for free, including my article on “Multi-Level Migrant Civil Society Activism in Southeast Asia”. You cann find the download link here:
My book “Global Migration Governance from Below: Actors, Spaces, Discourses” has now been published in the Palgrave Pivot series. It builds upon 15 years of participant observation at all levels of migration governance – and it is very much related to this blog. When working on the manuscript, I went back to my blog entries to see what my immediate impressions of these events were, went through documents uploaded here which are now no longer available at their original source and used the interviews and gue
A new Special Issue on The Politics of Migration Policies has been published in Third World Quarterly, guest edited by Katharina Natter and Hélène Thiollet. And Sandra Lavenex and Nicola Piper have guest edited a SI in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on “ Regions in Global Migration Governance ”. I had the pleasure to contribute to both SIs; find more information on the content and free epapers here: