International migration has become a salient concern in global politics but there is also significant variation in governance responses. By focusing on four key world regions -- Europe, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia -- this book explores the underlying factors that shape governance responses. Rather than focusing on the more visible outputs or outcomes of governance processes such as laws and policies, this book opens the 'black box' of migration governance to reveal how understandings and representations of the causes and effects of migration held by key governance actors in these four regions have powerful effects, not only on governance outcomes, but more broadly on the prospects for global migration governance. By doing so, the book shows how migration governance systems through their operation and effects can shape migration -- in its various forms -- and the lived experiences of migrants

Andrew Geddes is Professor of Migration Studies at the European University Institute, Florence Italy where he is also Director of the Migration Policy Centre. His publications include The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe (co-authored with Peter Scholten, Sage, 2017) and The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance (co-edited with Leila Hadj Abdou, Marcia Vera Espinoza, and Leiza Burumat, Edward Elgar, 2019).