Written by Marcin Grajewski,

On 10 December 2018, at a conference in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, more than 160 United Nations members adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. This is the first multilateral framework providing a global response to migration, and comes at a time of mounting public concern about the issue, in particular in the EU and US. Even though the agreement is non-binding and serves more as a set of best practices for the international community to improve global cooperation on migration, nearly 30 countries, including the US and a number of EU Member States, have decided to oppose it.
This note offers links to commentaries and studies on migration by major international think tanks. Earlier papers on the same topic can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are Thinking’, published in October 2018.
The Global Compact for Migration and the EU: Globaleffects of a regional backlash
Istitutoper gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, December 2018
À propos du Pacte mondial pour des migrations sûres,
ordonnées et régulières
Institut des relations internationales et stratégiques, October 2018
EU migration policies in the Sahel-stagnation in a mode
of crisis
Clingendael,
December 2018
Three years into the refugee displacement crisis
German Marshall
Fund, December 2018
The costs of fuelling humanitarian aid
Chatham House, December 2018
Is Italian agriculture a ‘pull factor’ for irregular
migration, and, if so, why?
Open Society
Institute, December 2018
For a European policy on asylum, migration and mobility
Institut Jacques
Delors, November 2018
EU migration policy bears no relation to reality
Stiftung
Wissenschaft und Politik, November 2018
Some EU governments leaving the UN Global Compact on
Migration: A contradiction in terms?
Centre for
European Policy Studies, November 2018
Migration in the EU-ACP Partnership after 2020:
Implementing the UN Global Compact
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, November 2018
UN migration agreement leads to splits in the European
Union
Atlantic Council, November 2018
Migration dynamics in play in Morocco: Trafficking and
political relationships and their implications at the regional level
Istituto Affari Internazionali, November
2018
Real people, true stories: Refugees for more inclusive
societies
Friends of Europe, November 2018
The future of migration policy in a volatile political
landscape
Migration Policy Institute, November 2018
Welcome! And the Global Compact’s ‘continental pull-out’
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, November 2018
Competing priorities at the EU’s external border
European Policy Centre, November 2018
Testing the water: How water scarcity could destabilise
the Middle East and North Africa
European Council on Foreign Relations, November
2018
In search of a new equilibrium: Immigration policymaking
in the newest era of nativist populism
Migration Policy Institute, November 2018
It’s not a refugee crisis: It’s a crisis of shrinking
humanity and inequality
Friends of Europe, November 2018
Transformative technology for migrant workers:
Opportunities, challenges, and risks
Open Society
Institute, November 2018
Who secures the U.S. border?
Council on
Foreign Relations, November 2018
When facts don’t matter: How to communicate more
effectively about immigration’s costs and benefits
Migration Policy Institute, November 2018
Cities and migration in Europe: All integration is local
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, November 2018
Changing patterns of migration from Pakistan to Germany
Bertelsmann Stiftung, November 2018
Reforming Europe’s refugee policies: Austrian-Danish plan
will not work
Centre for European Policy Studies, October 2018
Creating legal pathways to reduce irregular migration?
What we can learn from Germany’s ‘Western Balkan Regulation’
German Marshall Fund,
October 2018
State of play in the debate on migration management in
Europe
Clingendael,
October 2018
States are challenging new policy that denies asylum to
survivors of domestic violence
Council on
Foreign Relations, October 2018
Notes for understanding African migration
Atlantic Council,October 2018
Not always on a boat to Europe: Movements of Africans
within and beyond the continent
Heinrich Böll
Stiftung, October 2018
Trump’s cuts to central America aid will lead to more
caravans
Council on Foreign Relations, October 2018
Balancing acts: Policy frameworks for migrant return and
reintegration
Migration Policy Institute, October 2018
Turkey’s migration policy revisited: (Dis)Continuities
and peculiarities
Istituto Affari
Internazionali, October 2018
The future of Schengen
Stiftung
Wissenschaft und Politik, October 2018
The European Council and migration: Any progress?
Fundacion Real Instituto Elcano, October 2018
Applying behavioral insights to support immigrantintegration and social cohesion
Migration Policy Institute, October 2018
Read this briefing on ‘Migration‘ on the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.
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