A seminar will analyze the viability of multilateral management in the Mediterranean

25 June 2018 | Press release

The IEMed coordinates one of the seminars of the IMISCOE international congress, which brings together in Barcelona from July 2 to 4 the main European network of researchers on migration.

The IEMed will analyze the viability of a multilateral governance of migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region in the seminar that it has organized within the framework of the IMISCOE congress, the annual meeting of the main European network of researchers on migration and integration that is held this year in Barcelona from July 2 to 4.

Under the title “Multilateral governance of migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Is it possible? ”, the seminar, coordinated by Xavier Aragall (migration expert at the IEMed), takes place on July 2 and aims to identify ways to promote multilateral governance, understood as collaboration between the EU, European countries and the southern and eastern Mediterranean, as well as international and regional organizations.

The seminar will be attended by Yves Pascouau, researcher at the University of Nantes and editor of the EuropeanMigrationLaw website, who will review the current instruments of EU migration policy and propose what needs to change to move from the current Euro-centric strategy to a truly Euro-Mediterranean. So will Mehdi Lahlou, professor at the Institut National de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée (Morocco), who will expose the growth of mixed migratory flows (refugees, immigrants) to raise the need for global governance that includes countries of origin,  destination and transit. Finally, Bouchra Rahmouni, senior researcher at the OCP Policy Center (Morocco), will analyze the impact of climate change in the region on migration.

The IMISCOE congress, organized in Barcelona in collaboration with the Pompeu Fabra University, will address issues such as transnationalism, diversity, solidarity, diaspora and co-development in other sessions. In addition to the seminar, the IEMed also collaborates in the closing ceremony with the organization of a concert by the Catalan-Algerian singer Yacine Belahcene.