ABOUT BOOK

Against the presentation of an asymmetric global governance, this article ~analyzes the formation of global migration governance with its focus on the ~politics of migration and development. It traces the marginalization of a ~rights-based approach to migration and the streamlining of migration ~governance into business-friendly migration management and a geopolitical ~securitization agenda. It also reviews the trajectory towards factoring ~migration into a global development policy discourse as formulated in the ~UN 2030 Development Agenda. Specifically, it indicates that the inclusion of ~migration into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may promote ~migrant workers’ rights because several of these invoke universal human ~rights instruments, social protection and the observance of the ILO decent ~work agenda. However, this will only be possible if civil society critically ~engages powerful state and non-state actors in the process of monitoring the ~SDGs’ implementation, and resists their streamlining into investment and free ~trade neoliberal development regimes.