This joint EMN‑OECD inform presents an overview of the different approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and subsequent adaptation of migration strategies in EMN Member and Observer Countries and non-EU OECD Countries. It provides a comparative analysis, highlighting variations in the approaches to migration strategies across countries. The inform also provides some examples of common challenges and good practices in developing and implementing migration strategies.
The inform covers migration strategies, as defined above, that have been introduced since 2018 and are currently still in place in EMN Member and Observer Countries and non-EU OECD Countries. The strategies have been categorised into the following pre‑defined categories: 1) asylum; 2) regular migration; 3) integration; 4) irregular migration; 5) external dimension; and 6) contingency planning. For the purposes of this inform, a migration strategy was deemed overarching whenever it encompassed at least three different categories, whereas strategies referring to no more than two categories were deemed to be sectoral. Documents surveyed in this inform did not include funding programmes and government programmatic statements or coalition programmes. Under certain conditions, documents reviewed included: programmatic legislation on migration and asylum; action plans and policy notes; and strategies covering more than migration and asylum.
The analysis was prepared on the basis of contributions from 25 EMN Member Countries and three Observer Countries, and information provided by the OECD on non-EU OECD Countries.
This inform includes an annex of overarching and sectoral migration strategies by country and policy field.
