Advances in transportation and communications technology increase the potential for international migration around the world. As international migration becomes less inhibited by physical or economic constraints and more of a function of legal constraints imposed by states, it becomes an increasingly important issue in politics among states. As such, international migration is an issue area for possible international cooperation within international organizations or through the formation of less formal international regimes, initially defined by John Ruggie as “mutual expectations, rules and regulations, plans, organizational energies and financial commitments, which have been accepted by a group of states.”1 While an international refugee regime based on the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol on the Status of Refugees, as well as the ongoing activities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is well established,2 there is no international migration regime. If one follows the UN definition of international migration, according to which migrants are those who have lived outside of their country of nationality or birth for more than one year, there is relatively little international cooperation on international migration at the global level.