Unlike many other trans-boundary policy areas, international migration lacks coherent global governance. However, given the growing politicisation of migration and the recognition that states cannot always address migration in isolation from one another, a debate has emerged about what type of international institutions and cooperation are required to meet the challenges of international migration.

GEG’s work in this area focuses on four issues:

1. Forms of regional cooperation on migration
2. The ways in which different states choose to create or work through different international institutions in order to address migration

3. Issue-linkage between migration and other issue-areas (development, the environment and trade) and the impact of these linkages on migration politics
4. The engagement of developing countries in global migration governance