The Regional Governance of Migration and Mobility: Southeast Asia, African and South American Experiences

Programme Description

Regional organisations vary in highly significant ways in relation to both the institutional form that they take and the provisions that they have for migration from outside the region and mobility within it. Even if the EU is viewed as a paradigmatic case of an intra-regional free movement, this Executive Training showed how, why and with what effects other regions have also developed policies and legal frameworks to grant different sets of rights and obligations for intra and extra-regional migrants. These schemes are the result of complex constellations of power, interests and ideas at multiple levels reflecting the multidimensional complexities of transnational governance. Regional governance systems are shaped by and at the same time shape their environment while also playing a powerful role in defining the priorities on the global migration agenda. The Executive Training Seminar (ETS) looked closely at how laws and policies have developed to promote greater mobility within regions and govern migration from outside the region, as well as at the significant differences that there are between regions in developing and implementing such schemes for migration and mobility. The goal of this ETS was to explore the policies, politics, ideas and practices that shape the varied experiences of regional governance of migration and mobility in Southeast Asia, East and West Africa and South America.