🚨 New blog post out! 🚨 A significant share of labour immigration to Switzerland consists of posted workers. This business migration that is facilitated by trade agreements has hitherto received very little attention. Read now our blog post that sheds light on the nature and importance of trade-related migration in one of the most globalised economies https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/how-trade-agreements-shape-immigration-policy/
Philipp Lutz
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Political Scientist at University of Geneva, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and London School of Economics
What do trade agreements have to do with migration policy? ➡️ read now our blog post on our latest research to find answers (w. Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik & Sandra Lavenex) https://blogs.eui.eu/migrationpolicycentre/what-do-trade-agreements-have-to-do-with-migration-policy/
What do trade agreements have to do with migration policy? - MPC Blog
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) aim to facilitate trade between two or more countries by doing things such as cutting tariffs or facilitating investment, but new research from the University of Geneva shows that that more than 70% of all PTAs signed in the last decade also contain provisions on international migration. The majority of these […]
Migration governance through preferential trade agreements: We present the MITA dataset as the most comprehensive data source of migration content in trade agreements around the world, check out the newly published article here https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-023-09493-5
Migration governance through trade agreements: insights from the MITA dataset - The Review of International Organizations
States struggle to establish multilateral cooperation on migration – yet they include more and more migration provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs). This article sheds light on this phenomenon by introducing the Migration Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements (MITA) dataset. Covering 797 agreements signed between 1960 and 2020, this dataset offers a fine-grained coding of three types of migration provisions: those that facilitate the international mobility of service providers and labor migrants, protect migrant rights, and control unauthorized migration. Against the backdrop of limping multilateralism, we examine PTAs’ migration policy content with regard to two key cooperation dilemmas: conflicts of interest within developed countries and between them and developing countries. Facilitating business and labor mobility might be a possible way around the first dilemma, commonly referred to as the ‘liberal paradox': the tension between economic demands for openness and political calls for closure. Nevertheless, this facilitation is largely limited to highly skilled migrants and agreements between developed economies. Provisions for migration control tend to be included in agreements between developed and developing countries, which signals that states use issue-linkages to address the second dilemma, i.e. interest asymmetries. Finally, provisions for migrant rights stand out because they do not deepen over time. Our findings suggest that while PTAs have become an increasingly common venue for migration governance, the issue-linkage between trade and migration cooperation perpetuates entrenched divisions in the international system. The MITA dataset will allow researchers and policymakers to track the evolution of the trade-migration nexus and systematically investigate the motives for and effects of various migration provisions in PTAs.
New article out! How does the EU use its trade agreements for migration governance? Are these migration provisions expanding, complementing, or substituting multilateralism? Find out here https://t.co/Wu80EPiphE
📢 📢 📢 New article out. Do states prefer temporary mobility to permanent migration? Yes, but largely confined to labour migration and the mobility-preference declines the more countries become familiar with large-scale immigration. @WEPsocial http://bitly.ws/BWtn
New article out @JCMS_EU on the role of agencies in the EU’s external relations. We measure and explain to what extent third countries have opportunities to influence laws and policies of the EU. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.13455
📢📢📢Call for papers: Working on public perceptions or misperceptions about immigration? Join us at the ECPR General Conference in Prague #ecprgc23
Upcoming talk at @MPC_EUI on the public good theory of refugee protection, with @velez_caballero Register here: https://t.co/wB0uwntWo4
A discussion on the benefits of free movement and refugee protection - Migration Policy Centre - MPC
Join the hybrid seminar that will discuss the benefits of free movement and refugee protection. The first part of the seminar is based on a recent report co-authored by Silindile Mlilo, African Leader Fellow at the EUI, on the adoption Read More ...
New article out @JCMS_EU on the role of agencies in the EU’s external relations. We measure and explain to what extent third countries have opportunities to influence laws and policies of the EU. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.13455
JOB ALERT. I'm very happy to start a @snf_ch-funded research project on burden-sharing politics in European migration governance at @unige_en (Switzerland) in April 2023 and looking for a PhD candidate, please share and apply! ➡️ rb.gy/kcbdwz A 4-year position as part of a larger research network on migration governance, with no teaching obligations. More information on the project here (rb.gy/kaduiq), happy to answer any questions.