Migration Without Borders

Below please find the latest news from the UNESCO Migration Programme.

Migration without Borders is now available in French and Spanish
The UNESCO book «Migration without borders. Essays on the free movement of people» has received great interest amongst researchers and politicians since its publication in English in 2007. It is now available to a wider audience, having been translated into French and Spanish, as well as Russian.

The migration without borders scenario is of interest to researchers, NGOs, and politicians. In a globalised world where migratory flows appear to elude State efforts to regulate them, the free movement theory challenges conventional views on the need to control and restrict migration flows, and brings fresh considerations to current debates on migration policies and practices.

The book explores the analytical issues raised by free movement, in terms of ethics, human rights, economic development, politics, social cohesion and welfare, and provides in-depth empirical investigations of how free movement is addressed and governed in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. By introducing and discussing the possibility of a right to mobility, it calls for an opening, not so much of national borders, but primarily of the eyes and minds of all those interested in the future of international migration in a globalising world.

The book is nominated by the Association for Borderland Studies for its 2009 Book Award.

To order the book in English, French or Spanish, please visit: UNESCO Publishing. The English version can also be ordered at Berghahn Books.

The Russian version is available both in print and in electronic format. To download the Russian publication please click here

A Chinese version is forthcoming.

Contact:

Paul de Guchteneire
Head of the International Migration Section
UNESCO
1 rue Miollis
75732 Paris Cedex 15 France
Tel. +33 (0)1 45 68 43 30
Email : p.deguchteneire

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