The article analyses the conditions in which regime overlap stimulates or constrains the goals of international cooperation, and how regime complexity influences the strategies via which actors address the governance of migration in order to ensure access to rights for individuals forced to flee their country. Based on analysis of the elements of regime complexity, the article develops an analytical framework for studying the impact of regime complexity on cooperation at the overlap of the international human rights regime and refugee protection regime. The analysis reveals that regime complexity at this overlap creates opportunities for cooperation that actors exploit to evade less favourable international legal principles, institutions, and mechanisms.
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