Migration Governance Insights: Informing People-centred Migration Policies

How is migration governed across the world? What are the key trends? What are the insights to help governments develop policies and systems that promote safe, orderly and regular migration, and to harness its potential? This publication addresses these questions based on Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) data from 100 national and 69 local-level assessments, carried out between 2016 and 2023. It also showcases examples of migration policy responses in different contexts, emphasizing potential complementarities across different policy areas and highlighting the central role played by local governments in shaping people-centred migration policies. 

This publication is structured around three policy goals that echo IOM’s strategic priorities (saving lives and protecting people, addressing climate-related mobility and displacement, and facilitating pathways for labour migration), as well as three policy enablers, i.e. the elements that underpin the development of sound policies (empowering migrants, promoting migration policy coherence and building relevant partnerships). These are further broken down into 13 key policy areas. 

• LIST OF FIGURES
• BACKGROUND
• INTRODUCTION
• METHODOLOGY
• POLICY GOALS
  • 1. Saving lives and protecting people: policies to reduce vulnerabilities
  • 2. Addressing climate-related mobility and displacement: policies to tackle climate-induced migration and its consequences
  • 3. Facilitating pathways for labour migration: policies to promote labour mobility
  • and decent work
• POLICY ENABLERS
  • 4. Empowering migrants: policies to promote rights and equality of opportunities
  • 5. Promoting migration policy coherence: policies informed by data and enabled by solid institutions
  • 6. Building relevant partnerships: policies to include all stakeholders in migration governance
• CONCLUSIONS AND WAY FORWARD
• ANNEXES
  • Annex I. List of the 100 MGI-assessed countries and 69 local authorities covered in this document
  • Annex II. Selected examples from MGI data
• BIBLIOGRAPHY