The growth of a global economic system and other changes have changed the state’s regulatory role and its autonomy. This is particularly apparent in immigration policymaking and implementation, with the huge need for legal innovations consistent with the forming of a global economy. States increasingly have to confront a range of immigration rights and obligations, including universal human rights, and many aspects of immigration and refugee policy are linked with EU legal competence. Many governments are unable to address some major issues because of the growing number of transnational processes.
