ABSTRACT
Migration and displacement are not new phenomena but states and international organizations have increasingly cooperated to address these issues. The migration and refugee regimes developed in strikingly different ways. For refugees, the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol achieved widespread acceptance, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expanded its operations globally. For migrants, relatively few states signed on to the early migration treaties and International Organization for Migration (IOM) was deliberately established outside of the UN system. However, three recent international agreements-the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Global Compact on Refugees, and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration-consolidated much of the global migration governance within the UN system.
