The United Nations Migration Compact - In Context

Some member states of the United Nations just adopted the “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. ”  The compact is a legally non-binding statement of principles regarding the treatment of non-humanitarian immigrants, the sharing of information, support for the rule of law in adjudicating immigration matters, and international cooperation.  Practically, this compact does not amount to much a s it is legally non-binding and doesn’t change any laws.  However, the compact has garnered a lot of international attention since the United States, Austria, Australia, Chile, the Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Slovakia, and the Dominican Republic pulled out of the drafting and negotiation process.  The obvious context of the contentious debate over the compact is the rise of anti-immigration politics in much of the world – especially in the countries that dropped out of drafting the compact.  Additional context comes from theUnited Nations World Population Policies Database, which was last updated in 2015.   It designated the legal immigration policies of countries in the recent past.  The broad policies are to maintain current levels of immigration, raise them, lower them, no intervention, and no official legal immigration policy.  The database is constructed of answers to multiple choice question s about legal immigration policy by bureaucrats in national immigration departments and bureaus that implement immigration policy.  Of the...
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