IIR Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Justin Gest, published an analysis of the United Nations Global Compact for Migration in Foreign Policy. Together with Dr. Ian M. Kysel, Dr. Gest launched a database as part of Cornell University's Migrant Rights Initiative to catalog "rights across 36 countries that host a significant majority of the world's migrants." In the analysis, "France leads the world with 85 percent of migrant rights covered in national law, followed by Brazil and Argentina (83 percent); Italy, Spain, and Greece (81 percent); Ethiopia (79 percent); and Mexico and the Netherlands (77 percent)."
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