Just Security: Could a Migrants’ Bill of Rights Provide a Blueprint for Migration Policy in the Americas?

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Immprof Ian M. Kysel (Cornell) has an intriguing post over at the Just Security blog. It’s titled Could a Migrants’ Bill of Rights Provide a Blueprint for Migration Policy in the Americas?

The post starts strong, with the following exhortation: “President-elect Biden cannot simply unravel the Trump administration’s assault on the human rights of migrants by restoring the im/migration system that was in place on Jan. 19, 2017 – but must instead immediately improve on the status quo and think regionally.”

Kysel goes on to argue that a rights-based framework, as well as collaboration with the other nations of the Americas, will be key to solving the biggest migration policy concerns facing the US today and in the future. He identifies those concerns as:

1. Prescribing when migrants must be allowed to enter, including to secure asylum;
2. Ensuring individual protections in migrant status determinations and detention;
3. Providing basic rights to all migrant workers;
4. Safeguarding the unity of migrant families and the rights of child migrants; and,
5. Guaranteeing dignity to migrants upon return, including cross-border justice.

-KitJ