Why global migration policy dies without North Africa

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.

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