The European Migration Network (EMN) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have published the joint inform ‘Designing migration strategies’, which focuses on the development and implementation of migration strategies by governments in EMN Member and Observer Countries, and non-EU OECD countries, highlighting common challenges and good practices. Strategies are divided into six categories: asylum, regular migration, integration, irregular migration, external dimension, and contingency planning.
Overarching strategies cover at least three categories, whereas sectoral strategies focus on no more than two. The primary focus in EMN Member Countries overarching or sectoral migration strategies is irregular migration, followed by efforts in integration, regular migration, asylum, contingency planning, and the external dimension of migration. EMN Observer Countries mostly addressed regular migration, integration, and asylum alongside irregular migration.
