Migration Governance Actors

Abstract

This panel examines migration governance through the actors that shape it beyond formal state authority. The contributions analyse how international organisations such as the IOM, non-state actors, administrative bodies in the EU member states and epistemic communities produce and stabilise authority through knowledge production, data infrastructures, humanitarian interventions, and hybrid governance arrangements that blur the boundaries between law, administration, and politics. The panel discusses practices such as the use of migration data and forecasting in EU policymaking, the operational role of international organisations and NGOs in border externalisation contexts, life-saving activities that contest security norms at sea, and the reliance on informal or legally ambiguous instruments in post-crisis migration management. Particular attention is paid to how these practices enable selective mobility and enforced immobility.

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‘Formal Informality’ as a Tool of Governance in post-Crisis EU Migration Law and Policy	View Paper Details
Networks Across Borders, Bodies at the Border: Knowledge Mobility and Physical Immobility in EU-Mediterranean governance	View Paper Details