Migration, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy

Abstract

This panel focuses on the diplomatic importance of voluntary and forced migration. It addresses questions around the importance of migrant groups as foreign policy actors, as well as the strategies of incorporating migration in states’ foreign policy agendas. The panel discusses the linkages between cross-border mobility and diplomacy, the rationale behind the use of migration as instrument of diplomacy, and the consequences of migratory processes for the practice of foreign policy.