Territorial approach to the governance of international migrations

CeSPI
CeSPI’s monitoring and evaluation team: Lorenzo Coslovi ;Alberto Mazzali ;Marco Zupi
Date: 
2025

The paper presents the outcomes of a collective reflection on the experimentation of a territorial approach to migration governance, implemented through the Mentor1 and Mentor2 projects. This collaborative exercise engaged project partners in discussing the approach’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks. The findings highlight the approach’s key characteristics: multi-stakeholder participation, multi-level action, and transnationality, which together underscore its potential. A focus is placed on harnessing the unique qualities and capabilities of the actors involved to maximize synergies and ensure better alignment with specific local contexts.

However, the diversity of stakeholders brings forth critical challenges, such as fostering mutual understanding, developing a shared language, creating joint exploration pathways, and establishing permanent and open spaces for dialogue to sustain ongoing collaboration.

Unresolved challenges include enabling territorial initiatives to effectively influence policymakers (at both national and regional levels) to promote innovative governance models and tools, encouraging the active involvement of local economic and entrepreneurial networks in driving these processes, fostering collaboration between interconnected territories, and enhancing the fluidity and quality of circular migratory movements as a catalyst for co-development.

 

Download the English version of the document: TERRITORIAL APPROACH TO THE GOVERNANCE OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONS

 

Format: 
ITALIAN VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT
Document language: 
Italian
English
French