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Global migration is not a historical novelty. Today its importance stems from its place in a context of a ‘massive historical transition’ (Meissner et al., 1993) in the structures of world order. The challenge to policy and to the ‘old multilateralism’ stems not necessarily from an unprecedented size of human migration taking place across borders as many would argue (Garson, 1992), but more from its character, and the contradictory objectives of the various players involved in this issue. Consequently, the implications of global migration for a ‘new multilateralism’ are ambiguous and contradictory.
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Pellerin, H. (1997). New Global Migration Dynamics. In: Gill, S. (eds) Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism. Multilateralism and the UN System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25555-9_5
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