The Diffusion of Migration Control Practice

• Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

As part of the Schuman Centre Seminar series, Federica Infantino (Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow), will discuss how non-state actors are impacting the implementation of migration and border control policies in the European Union.

Like climate change, migration is a global issue that is addressed both locally and internationally, therefore triggering cross-national learning and policy diffusion that tend to be studied by focusing on policy design and discourses. Unlike the nexus between expert knowledge, epistemic communities and policy formulation, the nexus between everyday knowledge, communities of practice and policy implementation has not yet received systematic scholarly attention. What is the role that ‘learning from abroad’ plays in the implementation of migration and border control in the European Union? To what extent are non-state organizations (private for profit and not-for-profit) diffusing ways of doing things? How can field-based methodologies be utilized to study the configurations of actors and organizations involved, the motivations underlying their involvement, the process of knowledge development in interaction, the conflicts and negotiations? Building on extensive fieldwork research on actors and organisations that put migration and border control into action, Federica Infantino will shed light on the relevance of those questions while putting forward directions for future research.    

Federica Infantino is a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Schuman Centre.

The seminar is on Zoom - please register to receive the link. All are welcome.