Episode 36: How is migration governed at the city level? Mediterranean lessons learned from the MC2CM project

The Migration & Diaspora Podcast

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Migration & Diaspora Podcast - a show about all things migration, with me your host, Loksan Harley from Homelands Advisory.

Today, we're going local. We're talking all about city-level migration governance with Lamine Abbad from the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and Fátima Fernández of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).

Lamine

Lamine manages the Mediterranean City-to-City Migration project (MC2CM), which he'll tell us more about in a few moments. Previously, he was a project officer at UCLG in charge of mainstreaming migration in local governments’ agendas and localising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He also worked for several years within the Arco Latino transnational cooperation network.

He holds Master's degrees in Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences, Inter Mediterranean Mediation, and Science of Organisations and Institutions, specialising in decentralised cooperation.

Fátima

Fátima is a Project and Policy Officer in charge of human mobility at UCLG, where she is the focal point for the MC2CM project and coordinates local and regional participation in global migration governance processes. Fátima holds a PhD in Regional Development and Economic Integration with a focus on the Political Economy of Euro-Mediterranean relations.

What we talk about

I'm delighted to present to you our discussion about migration at the local level in the Mediterranean context. We start by talking about the relevance and importance of local migration governance and about how so many aspects of policy-making and administration at the city level impact migrants. We then discuss vertical policy coherence and how to achieve coherence between national and local migration policies. We close with some of Lamine and Fatima's insights into some of the exciting city-level migration policies and initiatives from across the Mediterranean.

We'd like to thank you so much for tuning in and we hope you enjoy the show.

Useful links

• ICMPD - https://www.icmpd.org/
• MC2CM - https://www.icmpd.org/our-work/projects/mediterranean-city-to-city-migration-mc2cm
• UCLG - https://www.uclg.org/
• MC2CM (@urban_migration) - https://twitter.com/Urban_Migration
• @UCLG_org - https://twitter.com/uclg_org
• See also Episode 18 on the Rabat Process dialogue - https://www.homelandsadvisory.com/podcast/episode/2fbc15bd/episode-18-what-do-inter-state-migration-dialogues-do-and-how-do-you-run-one-insights-from-the-rabat-process
• The Migration & Diaspora Podcast - https://www.homelandsadvisory.com/podcast