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11 - The Trade-Migration Nexus from a Multilevel Perspective

from Part III - Development Angles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2019

By
Flavia Jurje  and
Sandra Lavenex
Edited by
Manfred Elsig ,
Michael Hahn  and
Gabriele Spilker
Manfred Elsig
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Michael Hahn
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Gabriele Spilker
Affiliation:
Universität Salzburg
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Summary

International migration is a relative newcomer on the “trade and” agenda and has hitherto received relatively little attention in trade and migration studies alike. The inclusion of labour migration as one essential mode of cross-border trade in services, so-called Mode 4 in the GATS, opened the agenda for more far-reaching developments at the level of regional and bilateral free-trade agreements . This chapter shows that this deepening of the trade-migration nexus is intricately linked to power shifts in the global economy and the rise of regionalism. For the international trade regime in 2025, this means that, in combination with the ongoing power transitions, the trade-related mobility agenda is likely to expand beyond what the former sponsors of the GATS agreement, the European Union (EU) and the United States, originally intended.

Keywords

migrationservicesregionalismtrade agreements
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The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance
World Trade Forum
 , pp. 255 - 274
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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List of Interviews

Interview Permanent Mission of Indian to the WTO, Geneva, February 2013.

Interview Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), New Delhi, India, January 2014.

Interview Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Commerce, New Delhi, India, January 2014.

Interview ASEAN Secretariat, AEC Department, Jakarta, Indonesia, June 2014.

Interview Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, Jakarta, Indonesia, June 2014.

Interview Ministry of Trade Indonesia, Services division, Jakarta, June 2014.

Interview Expert IOM Buenos Aires and Regional Office for South America, Buenos Aires, July 21, 2014.

Interview Ministry of Labour, Buenos Aires, July 23, 2014.

Interview University of Lanus, Buenos Aires, July 22, 2014.

Interview National Direction for Migration, Buenos Aires, July 22, 2014.

Interview Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brasilia July 29, 2014.

Interview Ministry of Trade, Services Division, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2014.

Interview Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore, September 2015.

Interview Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, South Korea, Seoul, 2015.

Interview Academic Expert, Beijing, September 2015.

Interview ILO Experts, Beijing, September 2015.

Interview IOM Experts, Beijing, September 2015.

Interview Policy Expert, Beijing, September 2015.

Interview Government Official, Switzerland 2017.

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