Governments worldwide engage in a variety of treaties to regulate the movement of people, which either impose restrictions or make mobility easier. However, the treaties facilitating movement are not properly categorised. Instead, scholars and policymakers often pile them up under the wider umbrella of free movement. Following the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM), it has become necessary to carefully distinguish between three categories – free movement regimes (FMRs), visa liberalisation regimes (VLRs), and labour mobility schemes (LMS). The Freemove project, supported in part through a grant from the Open Society Foundations, is the first one ever to comprehensively map, analyse, and compare all bilateral and multilateral free movement of people regimes at the global level.
Freemove. Free Movement of People Regimes
