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The global displacement crisis has reached unprecedented levels, with over 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide. This reality challenges existing protection frameworks and tests international solidarity. How can civil society and international organisations best navigate increasingly restrictive migration regimes? And how do international migration frameworks impact this equation?
Drawing on ENSURED's report Transforming Global Migration Governance Through and Beyond the Global Compacts, this webinar brings together academic research and civil society practitioners to examine how the Global Compacts on Migration and on Refugees function, and to explore the gap between implementation and practice.
Over 90 minutes, we will explore key topics including:
- Migration governance effectiveness: How well do current Global Compacts translate into concrete protection for migrants and refugees, and where do the most critical implementation gaps exist?
- Burden-sharing and international solidarity: What mechanisms can address the unequal distribution of displacement responsibilities between regions and countries?
- National sovereignty versus protection obligations: How can international migration frameworks balance respect for state sovereignty with effective protection of migrant and refugee rights?
- EU migration leadership: What role can the EU play in strengthening global migration governance while addressing its own internal challenges with migration policy coherence?
- Civil society advocacy strategies: How can migration and refugee advocacy organisations effectively influence both global frameworks and national implementation while building public support for protection?
- Alternative avenues for cooperation: The potential for alternative organisms for migration and asylum (that is, initiatives outside the UN umbrella) is gaining popularity globally. Could these approaches be effective?
The session focuses on identifying civil society strategies to navigate increasingly restrictive migration policies and rising anti-immigrant sentiment worldwide.
Our panellists include:
- Felix Peerboom, Maastricht University
- Stephane Jaquemet, International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
- Michele LeVoy, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)
- Moderator: Samuel King, CIVICUS
To participate, please register for the webinar.
About the ENSURED Webinar Series
In Conversation with Civil Society is a year-long webinar series exploring how global governance institutions can become more effective, robust, and democratic. Each session brings together ENSURED researchers, policymakers, and civil society leaders to discuss practical reform pathways across seven key policy areas.
Through a conversational format, the series connects analytical research with civil society experience, identifies political opportunities for institutional change, and highlights where advocacy can have the greatest impact across fragmented governance landscapes and persistent North-South divides.
The series is coordinated and facilitated by CIVICUS.
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