On December 10, 2018, world leaders adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration [3], an agreement prepared through the United Nations that seeks to address all dimensions of international migration. The UN notes [4] that this is the first “global cooperation framework for sharing responsibility to protect the world’s 258 million people on the move—3.4 per cent of its population—and supporting the host communities working to accommodate them.” The Compact is a non-legally binding, cooperative framework that has twenty-three objectives concerning migration at local, national, regional, and global levels, that all contain state commitments. These commitments focus on issues such as using data to create evidence-based policies, minimizing factors that compel people to leave home states, providing migrants with accurate information, ensuring better documentation for migrants, and improving flexible pathways for regular migration.  It also affirms states’ sovereign rights to address migration at the national level, while focusing overall on the human dimension of migration.