Why global migration policy dies without North Africa
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Air-conditioned diplomacy has a way of creating fictional victories. Earlier this month, delegates at the second International Migration Review Forum in New York City adopted a Progress Declaration celebrating the advancement of the Global Compact for Migration. Meanwhile, bodies continued washing ashore along the Central Mediterranean route. Geography, rather than ideology, is where the Global Compact begins to unravel.
Friction during the forum exposed deeper fractures within global consensus on migration. Washington’s rejection of language linked to demographic “replacement” fears signaled that even major powers no longer agree on the political meaning of migration itself. At the same time, European countries continue demanding labor while hardening borders, as African governments demand mobility while receiving containment contracts. In other parts of the world, economies and societies welcome migrant labor while avoiding permanent integration. Consensus survives only at the level of abstraction.
