Democratizing global migration governance: What space for civil society? (MI-GLOBE)

The aim of the project (MI-GLOBE) is to investigate the development of an emerging global governance of migration (GGM) and the space, role, strategies, alliance making, and impact of a composite transnational civil society organisation (TCSOs) in pushing for an accountable rights-based approach to migration.

In  2006 UN initiated a High Level Dialogue (UN-HLD) on International Migration and Development, and in 2007 the Global Forum on migration and development (GFMD).

It is a state-led, nonbinding and informal process, but figures as the most comprehensive arena for intergovernmental deliberations between sending, receiving and transit states on standards for the GGM.

Against the background of a critical review of the UN-HLD, GFMD meetings (2007-2021), the factoring of migration into 2030 UN Development Agenda and the adoption of the UN Global Compacts for Migration (GCM), the research team will follow and analyse: a) Global governance policy framing, focusing, in retrospect and prospect, on principal positions on and conflicts over central issues concerned with business-friendly migration management approach and the rights-based approach to migration;b)  Processes of deliberation, conflict mitigation and consensus making between governments, multilateral organisations and TCSOs, business actors within the HLD, the GFMD and associated global and regional settings; c) TCOs mobilisation, internal negotiations, strategies tochallenge the marginalization of a rights-based GGM.