Medovernance thematic report: migration
The present document is the thematic report on migration elaborated within the 3-1 activity of the MEDGOVERNANCE project.
Three specific case studies have been selected to highlight qualities and characteristics of the governance process, which is developed principally at local level, even when issues should be dealt with at an international level. Unaccompanied minors, trafficked women and labour migration policies are topics in which transnational cooperation is necessary in order to produce positive results. At the moment it seems that there is a common thread belonging to governance on specific immigrant target groups, mainly trafficked women and unaccompanied minors. Among all the MEDGOVERNANCE partners, analysis has shown that co-ordination exists between the central and local levels in order to observe the subsidiarity principle: indications and funds coming from the EU are managed by national governments funding initiatives and projects at local levels. This process guarantees closer local co-operation and strong governance at local level. There is, on the other hand, a lack of efficacy at the international (and vertical) level of co-operation. Even in the case study of REMI, the international network developed in order to help unaccompanied minors coming from Africa to Europe (mainly France, Spain and Italy), achieves better results at local levels than could be achieved by the involvement of the three EU countries.
