Global Mobility Regimes: A Conceptual Reframing

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Global Mobility Regimes A Conceptual Reframing

• Rey Koslowski
• Fellow, Transatlantic Academy
• Associate Professor of Political Science, Public
  Policy and Informatics
• University at Albany

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Introduction

• Little international cooperation on migration
• Alternative concept global mobility
• set of interacting global mobility regimes.
• established international refugee regime
• emerging international travel regime
• non-existent but potential international labor
  migration regime.

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Overview

• 1. why no international labor migration regime
• 2. why cooperation on international travel
  differs
• 3. cooperation to secure international travel
• 4. linking international cooperation on securing
  travel to cooperation on labor migration
• General Agreement on Migration, Mobility and
  Security

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Lack of Cooperation on Migration

• Migration receiving states have no reason join
• No inherent reciprocity
• Lack of leadership from major receiving states

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International Cooperation on Travel

• 1920 Paris Conference on Passports and Customs
  Formalities.
• ICAO machine-readable passports
• labor migration and international travel present
  different economic incentive structure and
  politics

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Securing International Travel

• global mobility the new security issue not
  migration
• security concerns motivate cooperation on
  international travel
• ICAO biometrics on RFID chips
• INTERPOL lost and stolen passport
• UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime
  Anti-Smuggling Protocol
• UN Security Council Resolution 1373

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Linking cooperation on securing travel to
cooperation on labor migration

• General Agreement on Migration, Mobility and
  Security (GAMMS)
• US leadership legal labor migration
• EU framework for migration of labor
• Origin countries agree to rapid implementation of
  ICAO travel document standards and law
  enforcement cooperation

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Opportunities for international cooperation

• reduce the cost and increase the security of
  passports
• enable origin countries to register all children
  and provide them proper birth certificates

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Conclusion

• Global mobility all-inclusive concept
• political constraints and opportunities for
  cooperation on travel differ from cooperation on
  migration
• interacting global mobility regimes
• Link cooperation on labor to emerging travel
  regime