Effective Partnerships: What’s Involved, Who’s Involved? Louka Katseli Migration and Development: A Euro-Mediterranean Perspective 27 April 2007

(1) Euro-Mediterranean Migration Region: Great opportunities, potential instabilities Regional co-operation (not merely bilateral) is needed to facilitate migration management, circularity, development The EU, the US, the OECD must share burdens more equitably to meet the needs of this migration region

(2) Management – and perceptions – of the system need overhauling Smart, open-ended permits New voluntary, temporary, cyclical migration schemes Major simplification of bureaucratic and administrative procedures A monitoring and information sharing system

(3) Migration and development policies need to be interlinked Receiving country migration policies must be viewed through a “development lens” (to assess their impact on skills, labour markets, poverty…) Sending-country development policies must be viewed through a “migration lens” The role of aid: to build capacity

(4) Effective Partnerships Sending and receiving countries must be involved… …but also Diaspora networks The private sector (employers, banks…) Transit countries The EU can help develop principles and a framework for these policies

Effective Partnerships: Four levels 1. Managing mobility

Effective Partnerships: What’s Involved? (1) Mobility management Smart, open ended permits Information and monitoring system Simplification of procedures (2) Managing labour markets Opening up channels for legal migration Portability of social security Regularisation procedures (3) Managing economic adjustment regional policies Infrastructure investment innovative financial instruments (4) Managing social and political adjustment Urban and social policies Second and third generations Legal and political rights