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

2. (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

3. (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

4. (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

5. (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

6. Effective Partnerships: Four levels
1. Managing mobility

7. 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