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Abstract:
International migration is high on the public and political agenda of many countries, as the movement of people raises concerns while often eluding states’ attempts at regulation. In this context, the ‘Migration Without Borders’ scenario challenges conventional views on the need to control and restrict migration flows and brings a fresh perspective to contemporary debates. This book explores the analytical issues raised by ‘open borders’, in terms of ethics, human rights, economic development, politics, social cohesion and welfare, and provides in-depth empirical investigations of how free movement is addressed and governed in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. By introducing and discussing the possibility of a right to mobility, it calls for an opening, not only of national borders, but also of the eyes and minds of all those interested in the future of international migration in a globalising world.
Contents:
1. Introduction: the migration without borders scenario - Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire
Part I: Theoretical issues
2. The economics and politics of the free movement of people - Nigel Harris
3. The frontiers of mobility - Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
4. The ethics, economics and governance of free movement - Mehmet Ugur
5. Managing migration: towards the missing regime? - Bimal Ghosh
6. Open borders and the welfare state - Han Entzinger
Part II: Regional perspectives
7. Europe without borders: rhetoric, reality or Utopia? - Jan Kunz and Mari Leinonen
8. Creating a borderless West Africa: constraints and prospects for intra-regional migration - Aderanti Adepoju
9. Histories, realities and negotiating free movement in southern Africa - Sally Peberdy and Jonathan Crush
10. Migration without borders: a long way to go in the Asian region - Graziano Battistella
11. A world without borders? Mexican immigration, new boundaries and transnationalism in the United States - Alejandro I. Canales and Israel Montiel Armas
12. The free circulation of skilled migrants in North America - Rafael Alarcón
13. Migration policies and socioeconomic boundaries in the South American Cone - Alicia Maguid
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