Migration partnerships in multilayered migration governance

Migration partnerships seek to balance responsibility and benefits of migration more evenly between source and destination countries. As such, they have made advances over the multilateral and international frameworks for managing migration. They both link migration issues with other policy areas such as development, trade, finance or security and therefore require a particular degree of coordination between different actors for their implementation. Four case studies look at migration partnerships as a tool of international migration governance in various regions of the world. J. Trachtman establishes the overall framework for migration partnerships the international level, where a multi-dimensional approach to economic migration is still missing. N. Ward draws parallels between the temporary labour migration in the EU-CARIFORUM economic partnership agreement and EU mobility partnerships and analyses which type of cooperation proves more effective to ensure brain circulation. Against the backdrop of France’s new pacts on concerted migration management and Spain’s agreements, M. Panizzon argues that the “global approach” to migration is defined by this interplay of horizontal and vertical layers of treaties rather than by the topical issue linkages, such as trade, migration, development and security. M. Hazan and M. Panizzon investigate how the shared expectations of the partnership approach can be conceptualised through “co-development” initiatives which have as their main goal to get diasporas and the private sector involved.