Link between migration and development?

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Migration Development

• Link between migration and development?
• The Global Approach to Migration
• Political dialogue with Africa
• Africa-EU Partnership on Migration, Mobiliy
  Employment
• Root cause approach
• Specific priorities
• General
• Legal migration
• Migration Development
• Impact of the financial crisis?
• Challenges for the future

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Link between migration and development?

• Development policies contribute to address root
  causes of migration
• Migration can contribute to development
• Major progress in building a consolidated policy
  agenda
• Integrating migration issues in development
  policy
• Integrating development issues in migration
  policy
• Our challenge to make migration work for
  development

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Link between migration and development?

• Overall policy framework
• EU priorities on migration and development
• Impact of the financial crisis?

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The Global Approach to Migration

• To formulate comprehensive and coherent policies
  that address the broad range of migration-related
  issues, bringing together justice and home
  affairs, development and external relations so as
  to enhance dialogue and cooperation on migration
  in partnership with third countries.

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Political dialogue with Africa

• National level EU migration missions
• Regional level Rabat conference on migration
  and development (2006), Paris conference (2008)
• Continental level Tripoli Africa-EU conference
  on migration (2006) EU-Africa Partnership on
  Migration, Mobility and Employment (2007)

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EU-Africa Partnership on Migration, Mobility and
Employment

• Reflects shift in European thinking on African
  migration
• Establishes robust framework for
  intra-continental dialogue and dialogue
• Integrates agreed priority actions and innovative
  instruments
• International organisations, third countries,
  civil society are welcome to join

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Root cause approach

• Address the push factors of migration
• Poverty, lack of jobs
• War, conflict
• Persecution, human right violations
• Environmental degradation, climate change
• Bad governance
• to make migration a choice, rather than a
  necessity

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Specific priorities - general Fill the
information gap

• Migration profiles pool all the information
  required to develop policy and monitor the impact
  of the policies implemented.
• Regional Observatories Network collection,
  processing and dissemination of information on
  migration movements
• Cooperation Platforms information sharing,
  discussion and joint action

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Specific priorities legal migration Promote
circular migration

• a triple win?
• For the EU, it will be able to fill specific
  (temporary) gaps in the labour markets
• For the country of origin, individuals will send
  money home and will eventually return with new
  skills
• For migrants, they will acquire income, knowledge
  and skills, without giving up roots in country of
  origin

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Specific priorities legal migration Negotiate
Mobility Partnerships

• agreements with selected countries
• EU offers
• short-stay visa facilitation
• facilitated access to the labour markets of
  Member States willing to participate in the
  scheme and circular migration schemes
• provision of capacity building
• Partner countries should cooperate on
• fighting illegal migration
• return
• readmission

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Specific priorities legal migration Set up
Migration Information and Management Centres

• . e.g. CIGEM Mali
• will provide
• information on legal migration opportunities
• information on the risks of illegal migration
• training
• support to migrants who want to return / invest
• .run
  by Malian government

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Specific priorities migration development
Enhance the development impact of remittances

• Promote innovative solutions for transferring
  money
• Remittances web sites
• African Remittances Institute
• Leverage for banking reform

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Specific priorities migration development
Address brain drain

• Enhance retention
• Training for export
• Ethical recruitment
• Return of qualified nationals

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Specific priorities migration development
Involve the diasporas

• Africas 6th regional community
• Investors and source of human capital
• Development donors
• Representatives of the country of origin
• How to effectively involve the Diaspora in our
  policy discussions?

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Impact of the financial crisis?

• Developing countries affected by the crisis
• Job losses affecting a number of sectors , labour
  migration flows affected?
• Higher risk of discrimination
• Remittances flows resilient compared to other
  finanical flows
• Our response
• Need to further insist on the connection betweeen
  migration and development
• Address the effects of financial crisis in
  developing countries

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Challenge for the future

• Ensure that migration works for development
• in the European Union (labour market
  management, integration policies)
• in countries of origin (circular migration,
  remittances, investments, transnational
  communities)
• for the benefit of all