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This year marks the end of the MDGs and the setting of arguably a new chapter for the multilateral system. The beginning of the Post-2015 period comes also at a time of greate[...]

This report aims to broaden knowledge of good practices and policies that can contribute to good governance of human mobility at a local level in the face of the challenges po[...]

Through a qualitative study based on 25 in-depth interviews, this policy report provides an in-depth understanding of the challenges and opportunities that Syrian refugee yout[...]

This report presents the results of both discourse and contents analyses of thirty four documents in which the concept of "Statelessness" appeared, as it developed within the [...]

Administrative detention occurs where a state arrests and detains an individual outside the criminal law context. A key example of this is immigration detention. Different gro[...]

Transnational connections are a central component of diasporic communities. Diaspora members participate in transnational networks that link people in their country of origin,[...]

Migration control functions are increasingly being delegated to private actors, a phenomenon which particularly affects stateless persons. This report discusses two forms this[...]

This report offers a brief selective overview of the past decade's developments in global migration governance. It looks at how the coming together of three types of participa[...]

This policy report focuses on climate change and international movement from Pacific island countries (PICs), which face a specific set of challenges in that respect. In the s[...]

This report examines the complex relationship between cities, displacement and stranded migrants, taking as a focus the recent social, political and demographic transformation[...]

This policy report considers the ambiguities of categories used in understanding and governing migration. It takes into account cases of migrants who might not clearly fall un[...]

This report aims to map needs and services for Syrian and Palestinian women in Lebanon in cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). SGBV is a violation of human rights[...]

Cities, small and large, are at the forefront of receiving displaced persons who are fleeing from both recent, as well as longer-standing, humanitarian crises. In the imaginar[...]

International conflicts and instabilities in Middle East, Central Asia and Northern African countries have involved a high human cost in terms of refugee crises and the displa[...]

The Domestic Workers Convention 2011 (C189) has been lauded as a major step for female agency in cases of mobility, driving and responding to sociocultural change. This is for[...]

This policy report is complementary to the ethnographic project "Women of the World: Home and Work in Barcelona", carried out by the United Nations University, Institute on Gl[...]

This policy report identifies strategies to promote political empowerment for female immigrants in the European Union. Migrants lack access to participation in formal governme[...]

There are currently 79 states party to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, with a further 13 who have pledged accession in the near future. The 19[...]

Considering the prominence of both migration and gender equality on the international agenda, this policy report examines how restrictive emigration policies discriminate agai[...]

This report will examine the practices of female migrants who campaign for the recognition of their fundamental labour and human rights as domestic workers and who seek empowe[...]

Asylum seekers arrive to host states with various needs and rights. In policy, it is tacitly assumed that the host state has an immediate obligation to provide for the more ur[...]

This policy brief examines how new technologies improve the lives of modern migrants. By facilitating affordable and easy communication, new technologies enable migrants to st[...]

This extended policy report will consider the economy of care and intimacy within which many female migrants are employed in the global labour market, ensuring the well being [...]

This report examines the experiences of involuntary immobility of urban refugees living in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand has not ratified the 1951 Convention or the 1967 Additio[...]

Migration has become a defining feature of our era. In this wave of migration, people from the Horn of Africa have been one of the major groups attempting to reach Europe via [...]

As Mexico puts into place new policies and programs to address increased migration from the Northern Triangle countries, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, it is critical t[...]

Migration from the Northern Triangle countries, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, continues to rise, with many migrating to or through Mexico to the United States. Many mi[...]

This report contains findings from a research project that explored the South African context as perceived by African women with migration ex- perience. It focuses on African [...]

Since its unveiling in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has clearly manifested itself as one of China's highest priorities. The mere size and ambition of the BRI, [...]

The term youth encompasses many different forms based on self-identification and community-designated identification which impacts their engagement with the IGF. In essence, h[...]

This Policy Brief draws on the public IGF participation lists from 2006 to 2019 in which we analysed how individual participants chose to identify their stakeholder categories[...]

The EU-India Roadmap to 2025 deserves more focus on the outreach and engagement of students and young professionals to ensure the sustainability of the overall strategic partn[...]

This Policy Brief elaborates on the changing role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in West Africa. In the wake of the 'migration crisis' of 2015 and 2016,[...]

The discussion of EU-African cooperation on migration often primarily takes the interests of EU member states into account. However, this Policy Brief takes an in-depth look a[...]

Smallholder seaweed farmers in low and middle-income countries produce a large proportion of the global produce of red seaweed (also called eucheumatoid seaweed) to feed the g[...]

The European Union's presence in the Caspian Sea region provides an interesting case. Over the years, the EU has progressively imported fossil fuels from the Caspian countries[...]

Sustaining economic interest in Malaysian seaweed cultivation and ensuring price stability will require coordination of downstream value chain activities including marketing a[...]

Key challenges must be addressed to sustain seaweed stocks amid increasing demand from wild harvesting and cultivation industries. Seaweeds are highly productive, supporting d[...]

General and focused debates on United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) coordination on issues of peace and security have for a while been and continue to be a topic of impo[...]

This policy brief elaborates on the increasing importance of standard-setting as a means of advancing geopolitical competition, particularly in the global governance of emergi[...]

Agenda 2063, Africa's master plan for development, calls for improved capacities of institutions and organisations at continental, regional, and national levels alongside the [...]

This policy brief argues that scholars should no longer study the countries in Eastern Europe from the angle of EU-Russia competition, rather they need to account more explici[...]

Despite the complex and multifaceted nature of relations, the European Union (EU) and Latin America/Caribbean (LAC) share an aligned framework of values including democracy, r[...]

This paper examines the state of Vietnam's renewable energy sector and the potential effectiveness of its current renewable energy policies in terms of its ability to attract [...]

This policy brief contributes to the understanding of the roles of Indigenous Peoples' Organisations in the context-specific environmental governance challenges in the Arctic [...]

This policy brief highlights key challenges that must be addressed for the long-term sustainability of the global seaweed industry, ensuring its role in providing nature-based[...]

The seaweed industry makes a significant contribution to Tanzania's economy, but this has been severely impacted due to climate-induced pest and disease outbreaks in the recen[...]

International migration is undergoing unprecedented changes. The traditional determinants of migration such as poverty, food insecurity and climate change are giving way to ne[...]

Central America added its own crossroads to the global transformations currently underway, forced by the aftermath of the Great Recession and the ravages of the Covid-19 pande[...]