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The UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: to what extent are human rights and sustainable development mutually compatible in the field of migration?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2020

Elspeth Guild
Elspeth Guild*
Affiliation:
Jean Monnet Professor ad personam, Queen Mary University of London
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: e.guild@qmul.ac.uk
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Abstract

In this contribution, I examine the links between the human rights basis of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and its embeddedness in the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. While the GCM grew out of a development framework, it was rapidly incorporated into the UN human rights system. Even during the negotiation of the GCM, human rights took priority over development. The resistance that was manifested against the GCM on its endorsement by the UN General Assembly was directed not against its development links, but rather concerns about its human rights impact. This paper examines the placing of migration in this dual framework and the ways in which outcomes compatible with both are achievable.

Keywords

human rights lawmigrationmigration–development nexusmigrants’ rightsSustainable Development Agenda 2030Global Compact for SafeOrderly and Regular Migration
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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 16 , Special Issue 3: Migrants' Rights Finally Front and Centre of the International Agenda? Exploring the Perils and Possibilities of the SDGs and the GCM , September 2020 , pp. 239 - 252
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