Negotiating one position: Switzerland at the Global Forum on Migration and Development

Anna Babel, Susan Thieme and Katarzyna Grabska

Development in Practice, 2015, vol. 25, issue 6, 856-866

Abstract: The paper explores intra-governmental processes in migration policy-making, using the example of Switzerland and examining its preparations for chairing the Global Forum on Migration and Development 2011. Switzerland's “one joint position”, presented at the forum, required intensive negotiations and cooperation between different Swiss federal offices. The paper highlights how and why Switzerland achieved this joint position. It analyses the intra-governmental tensions between national securitisation and global migration and development debates and how they were overcome. This experience of a “whole-of-government approach” offers an insight into politics underlying migration and development debates within donor countries, and its implications for global migration debates.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2015.1058341

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