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The Geopolitics in the Global Compacts book cover

1st Edition

The Geopolitics in the Global Compacts

Edited By Nicholas R. Micinski, Camille Lefebvre Copyright 2027
156 Pages
by Routledge

 This book critically examines how states have leveraged the 2018 UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees to advance their geopolitical and strategic interests. Through a detailed analysis, it explores the emerging norm of state responsibility for managing migration while exposing the gaps, contradictions, and silences surrounding key issues such as non-refoulement, internal displacement,... Read more

Preface

Nicholas R. Micinski and Camille Lefebvre

 

1. The Geopolitics in the Global Compacts: Sovereignty, Emerging Norms, and Hypocrisy in Global Migration Governance

Nicholas R. Micinski and Camille Lefebvre

 

2. Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling

Corey Robinson

 

3. Capacity Building as Intervention-Lite: Migration Management and the Global Compacts

Nicholas R. Micinski and Philippe Bourbeau

 

4. Euphemistic Rhetoric and Dysphemistic Practices: Governing Migration in Mexico

Amalia Campos-Delgado

 

5. National Policies on Immigration Detention and the Global Compacts: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and France

Camille Lefebvre and Silviana Cocan

 

6. Exclusion of Climate Migrants from the Global Compact on Refugees

Fran Woodworth

Biography

Nicholas R. Micinski is Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University. He is the author of three books: Aiding Autocrats: Migration Management, Governance and Repression in Africa (2026, co-authored with Kelsey P. Norman), Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (2022), and UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees (2021).

 

Camille Lefebvre is a PhD candidate at Leiden University in a joint program with Université Laval. She was previously Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and Judicial Clerk at the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada (FCA), and is the recipient of the Louis-Philippe Pigeon Award (2024), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (2022), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award (2021), and the John Peters Humphrey Fellowship (2021).

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