Beyond the WDR 's state‐centrism

Multi‐level migration governance and migrant exclusion

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9953565
AutoresSabrina Axster (0000-0002-8811-5624, Cornell University Ithaca New York USA, autor correspondente), Rachel Beatty Riedl (0000-0001-8961-5236, Cornell University Ithaca New York USA)
Ano2025
Volume63
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2025-02-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.70003
OpenAlexW4407777326
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas16

The 2023 World Development Report, titled Migrants, Refugees, and Societies, analyses the state policies, laws, and labour market forces that determine the ability of migrants to improve their social and economic wellbeing. However, in its analysis the report adopts a state‐centric view, focusing predominantly on the state as the primary actor in the management of migration, thereby eliding a thorough analysis of how formal and informal institutions at the supranational and subnational levels impact the lives of migrants beyond citizenship. In this response, we instead argue for multi‐scalar analysis and evaluation of the policies that affect migrants. We illustrate how citizenship and access to its associated benefits are mediated at these multiple levels and bring compounding factors such as race, class, gender, religion, skill‐level, and rural or urban origin, among others, into view. This allows for a fuller analysis of the processes that shape migrant's experiences and lives

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