This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the
source and scope of international law on migration. It explores
international norms on state authority to regulate migration, freedom of
movement, forced migration, human rights, family unification,
trafficking and smuggling of migrants, national security, rescue at sea,
health, development, integration, and nationality. Migration and
International Legal Norms shows that, despite the absence of a
comprehensive legal instrument governing international migration, there
is a wide range of legal norms relevant to migration embodied in
multilateral treaties and conventions, regional agreements, and
customary international law. It also identifies some significant gaps in
international law, recommending areas for further cooperative efforts.
This volume will be of interest to scholars and policy-makers, and to
all those interested in how the community of nations is responding to
the increasingly significant phenomenon of international migration.