Abstract
Migrants are policy brokers that change domestic public policy processes, turning them more global and more local at the same time. “Glocal” policy thinking and making have challenged and shifted priorities in the domestic and democratically driven policy processes around the world. In this chapter it will be argued that working migrants, asylum seekers, trafficked person, or refugees are willingly or unwillingly key actors and advocates within the advocacy coalition framework that change not only belief and policy learning systems but the whole concept of domestic and democratic public policy making. Despite the fact that most migrants do not enjoy full citizenship of the country they enter, live, and work in, but nevertheless they are full part of the labor and service market and possess democratic and legitimacy deficits on public policy systems. These deficits can be best overcome by policy makers when adhering to global norms and standards and by allowing local actors and cities to apply to them while migrants are becoming a more inclusive part of the public policy cycle
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The root causes for migration can range from climate change-induced migration, overpopulation and bad distribution of resources, poverty, labor situation for young people, war and conflict, ethnic, religious- and faith-based disputes, career options and social status, and female marriage migration due to male surplus—just to mention a few. But to tackle them, one has to include these people and the way and level on which this can be done, depending on the legal status of migrants, whether they are legal, illegal, documented, undocumented, labor, refugee, or slave.
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In comparison to the total figure of almost 90 million migrants moving to the North, 14 million migrants move from the North to the South, and the majority among them belong to an educated labor, skilled and contracted experts and ex-pad community.
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Mihr, A. (2019). “Glocal” Public Policy in Times of Global Migration. In: Grimm, H.M. (eds) Public Policy Research in the Global South. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06061-9_4
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