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This edited volume examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of growing transnational law enforcement. With states increasingly making use of global governance modes, core exercises of public authority, such as migration control, surveillance, detention and policing, are increasingly conducted extraterritorially, outsourced to foreign governments, or delegated to non-state actors. New forms of cooperation raise difficult questions about divided, shared and joint responsibility under international human rights law. At the same time, some governments engage in transnational law enforcement exactly to avoid such responsibilities, creatively seeking to navigate the complex, overlapping and sometimes unclear bodies of international law. As such, this volume argues that this area represents a particular dark side of globalisation, requiring both scholars and practitioners to revisit basic assumptions and legal strategies. It will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of international relations, human rights and public international law.

1. Conceptualizing the migration industry / Ruben Hernandez-Leon -- 2. The migration industry in global migration governance / Alexander Betts -- 3. Migration trajectories and the migration industry: Theoretical reflections and empirical examples from Asia / Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann -- 4. The migration industry and developmental states in East Asia / Kristin Surak -- 5. The neoliberalized state and the growth of the migration industry / Georg Menz -- 6. The rise of the private border guard : accountability and responsibility in the migration control industry / Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen -- 7. Private security companies and the European borderscapes / Martin Lemberg-Pedersen -- 8. Pusher stories : Ghanaian connection men and the expansion of the EU's border regimes into Africa / Hans Lucht -- 9. Migration brokers and document fixers : the making of migrant subjects in urban Peru / Ulla D. Berg and Carla Tamagno -- 10. Public officials and the migration industry in Guatemala : greasing the wheels of a corrupt machine / Isabel Rosales Sandoval -- 11. Migration between social and criminal networks : jumping the remains of the Honduran migration train / Ninna Nyberg Sørensen.

Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration.This volume claims t.

This book offers an in-depth examination of the strategic use of State sovereignty in contemporary European and international affairs and the consequences of this for authority relations in Europe and beyond. It suggests a new approach to the study of State sovereignty, proposing to understand the use of sovereignty as games

From an airstrip in Saudi Arabia, the CIA launches drones to 'legally' kill Al-Qaida leaders in Yemen. On the North Pole, Russia plants a flag on the seabed to extend legal claim over resources. In Brussels, the European Commission unveils its Emissions Trading System, extending environmental jurisdiction globally over foreign airlines. And at Frankfurt Airport, a father returning from holiday is detained because his name appears on a security list. Today, legality commands substantial currency in world affairs, yet growing reference to international legality has not marked the end of strategic struggles in global affairs. Rather, it has shifted the field and manner of play for a plurality of actors who now use, influence and contest the way that law's rule is applied to address global problems. Drawing on a range of case studies, this volume explores the various meanings and implications of legality across scholarly, institutional and policy settings