Regional migration governance and the selective framing of norms: a comparative analysis of BSEC and SEECP.
This article explores how regional organizations engage in the construction, diffusion and contestation of migration and mobility norms. Drawing on the literature on regionalism and migration governance, this study adopts region as the primary unit of analysis and examines how normative agendas of r...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southeast European & Black Sea Studies Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 279 - 300 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2026
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