This paper in the journal Foundations of International Migration Law reviews the sources of international legal norms that govern migration by examining treaty law, customary law and general principles of law. It concludes by assessing the role of soft law on the traditional sources of international...

This policy insight explores opposition to the GCM from European Union member states due to concerns that the compact infringes upon “national interests” or sovereignty.

Blog post considering States’ justifications based on national sovereignty for withdrawing from the Global Compact by analysing the legal nature of the Compact.

This programming guide is a tool to help the staff of Save the Children in the many varied and complex situations in which they work to provide much needed care and support to children on the move. This guide has an explicit focus on protection interventions, while also advocating for and supporting...

Screening tool for identifying and addressing situations of vulnerability intended to help guide and inform frontline workers and decision-makers in the context of asylum and migration procedures and systems

An overview of how migration management regimes have evolved as states have sought to establish, consolidate, and leverage their sovereignty, in the context of the Global South.

Special feature of the Humanitarian Exchange magazine focusing on gender-based violence in humanitarian crises

An outline of why protecting migrants’ rights – as in the GCM – can enhance rather than undermine state sovereignty.

Following the guiding principles of 2004, the Field Handbook provides up-to-date and detailed operational guidance for all actors concerned with the welfare and protection of unaccompanied and separated children.

This document frames IOM’s broad, inclusive approach which recognizes the increasingly protracted nature of crisis and associated impacts on displaced populations, as well as on other migrants and affected communities.

Discussing the limitations placed by international law onto national sovereignty concerning the control of entry, the conditions of entry and stay and the treatment of irregular migrants.

Presenting the relationship between sovereignty and migration, including the misuse of sovereignty and how to reconcile it with human rights in the context of migration.

This paper was presented at the 5th International Forum on Migration and Peace.

Exploring why nation states accept or resist limits on sovereignty in the context of border security, migration, and the GCM. 

A chapter which outlines how international agreements such as the GCM can contribute to more effective global governance of international migration.

A chapter which provides a descriptive analysis of the GCM before examining its effect on the global migration governance architecture and the challenges for its implementation, including as they relate to sovereignty.

Provides a comprehensive overview of international law that govern the movement of persons across borders and frame migration governance, including the relevant treaties and customs, from human rights law, refugee law, labour law, and criminal law, as well as the role of soft law on global migration...

This publication sheds light on the often hidden experience of irregular migrant domestic workers, and challenges Governments to take appropriate protective measures. It emphasizes that migrant domestic workers, regardless of whether they are male or female, children or adults, in a regular or...

As a policy framework, the AUC/ILO/IOM/ECA Joint Programme on Labour Migration, Development and Regional Integration (JLMP) is built as a strategic regional intervention to leverage migration for development. The JLMP is also a creative work to achieve the key dimensions of the programme regarding...

The Lecture Series contains a permanent collection of lectures of enduring value on virtually every subject of international law given by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different regions, legal systems, cultures and sectors of the legal profession.

The current public health crisis caused by COVID-19 disproportionately affects people and communities who are already in vulnerable and marginalised situations. This guidance provides States and other stakeholder key recommendations to ensure that migrants in vulnerable situations are included in...