Discussion: the Model International Mobility Convention

After nearly two years of study and debate convened by the Columbia Global Policy lnitiative’s International Migration Project, the Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC) represents a consensus among over 40 academics and policymakers in the fields of migration, human rights, national security, labor economics, and refugee law. The MIMC provides a holistic and rights-based approach to international mobility that integrates the various regimes that seek to govern people on the move. ln addition, it nlls key gaps in international law that leave many people unprotected by establishing the minimum rights afForded to all people who cross state bord ers – whether as visitors, tourists, students, workers, residents, entrepreneurs, forced migrants, refugees, victims of trafficking, people caught in countries in crisis and family members – and defines their relationships to their communities of destination, origin, and transit.

Speaker: Pierre Bertrand, former UNHCR Senior Official

Discussant: David Petrasek, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa