Two new Global Compacts – on migration and refugees – were agreed by the UN General Assembly in 2018. The essays in this special issue ask questions about the provision and transformation of protection as these Compacts change migration and refugee governance. They are inspired from legal, geographical and international relations perspectives, and demonstrate how the Compacts constitute and situate protection in deeply conservative ways. For example, the Compacts represent migrants and refugees as starkly differentiated and thus fix their juridico-political status in place without sufficiently taking into account that, empirically, such differentiation is problematic. Overall, the essays in this special issue intervene in the debate about the two Global Compacts not only by exposing the richness of different disciplinary registers and languages, but also by thinking critically about the idea of protection and taking seriously the messiness of “mixed mobility”.

联合国大会于2018年就两项关于移民和难民的新全球契约达成了一致。本期特刊中的文章提出了有关提供和转变保护的问题，因为这些契约改变了移民和难民治理。它们从法律，地理和国际关系的角度受到启发，并以保守的方式展示了契约是如何构成和提出保护的。例如，《契约》将移民和难民区别对待，从而在没有充分考虑到这种区别是有问题的情况下，就将其司法政治地位固定在适当的位置。总体而言，本期特刊中的文章介入了有关两个全球契约的辩论，不仅公开了不同学科纪律和语言的丰富性，