Migration diplomacy

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Immigration
General
Immigration by country Immigration policy Illegal immigration
History and law
Border security Citizenship Repatriation Deportation Immigration law Externalization Indefinite leave to remain Migration diplomacy Non-refoulement Right of asylum Refugee Visa Voluntary return
Social processes
Social integration Immigrant assimilation Acculturation (Acculturation Gap) Persecution Social exclusion
Political theories
Civic nationalism Religious nationalism Replacement migration Social cohesion Nativism Multiculturalism Plurinationalism Ethnocentricism
Opposition and reform
Criticism of multiculturalism Immigration reform Opposition to immigration White genocide conspiracy theory
Causes
Economic migrant War
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In international relations, migration diplomacy is 'the use of diplomatic tools, processes, and procedures to manage cross-border population mobility,'^[1] including 'both the strategic use of migration flows as a means to obtain other aims, and the use of diplomatic methods to achieve goals related to migration.'^[2] Migration has come to constitute an increasingly-important area of states' engagement with one another, with bilateral multilateral strategies including the promotion or discouragement of bilateral migratory flows; agreements on preferential treatment to certain foreign nationals; the initiation of guest-worker programmes or other short-term labor migration schemes; the deportation of foreign nationals; and so on.