Transnational Mobility, the International Law of Aliens, and the Origins of Global Migration Law
To speak of a “global migration law” is challenging, perhaps even quite provocative, in an era in which walls are being continuously erected at borders and seas transformed into mass graves. The ambition of international law often seems to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2017-01-01
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| Series: | AJIL Unbound |
| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772317000125/type/journal_article |
| Summary: | To speak of a “global migration law” is challenging, perhaps even
quite provocative, in an era in which walls are being continuously erected at
borders and seas transformed into mass graves. The ambition of international law
often seems to be to rescue what can still be saved: the refugee regime for
example, or minimally decent treatment of migrants once under the jurisdiction
of a third country. A global law of migration, then, might be as much if not
more the law of obstacles to human mobility than a body of law premised on a
more fundamental commitment to freedom of movement. |
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| ISSN: | 2398-7723 |