Migration policy in the international arena: Between protection and coercion

• Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
• Migration Working Group
• MPC: Migration Policy Centre

Join the next session of the Migration Working Group, where we will discuss two papers that broaden our understanding of the weight migration can have in policy-making and international relations.

This session brings together two papers on migration and foreign policy. One contribution analyses how the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) approach refugee protection. Discussants will draw on institutional theory and present empirical data to contrast their different governance styles. The other paper shows how the presence of refugees is coercively leveraged in migration diplomacy. Based on role theory, the discussion about the second will examine the external role expectations of the Global North, using the 2020 Greek-Turkish border incident as an exploratory case study.

The Migration Working Group (MWG) is a researcher-led research group, whose aim is to foster exchange on the latest, cutting-edge migration research and give the opportunity to early career scholars and PhD researchers to present their research.