The Autumn Academy 2018 was a symposium for senior policy makers, NGO leaders, academic experts and foundations involved in the development, implementation and study of immigration and asylum policies in Europe and North America. Held annually in Oxford (UK), the Autumn Academy provided a precious opportunity, in a private round table setting, to share knowledge, expertise and ideas; consider the implications of research evidence and analysis; critique policy and practice options; learn from differing approaches in Europe and North-America and consider their potential applicability in differing contexts across the Atlantic.
In 2018, the Academy explored the issues raised by cooperation between government and civil society in the management of migration. Participants explored the differing ways in which government at national/federal and local level is increasingly working with civil society organisations in the implementation of migration policies: from refugee resettlement and sponsorship programmes, search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean and support for unaccompanied minors, to innovative initiatives at city level. There are also formal and informal structures in which governments engage civil society in policy development.
Yet collaboration can bring significant challenges to government and to civil society: working relationships that, while essential, can be fragile and carry economic and political costs for both parties. Our hope was that, through discussion and reflection, the symposium identified general principles on which successful future relationships can be built.
Participants contributed to the agenda as speakers, respondents, and session chairs.
The symposium was organised by the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, the knowledge-exchange arm of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. Funding was provided by The Social Change Initiative, supported by Atlantic Philanthropies, as a programme within its own Migration Learning Exchange initiative.
Final Report
What did we learn?
Autumn Academy Speakers and Participants
Cooperation between governmental authorities and NGOs in the field of migration – Nicola Delvino & Sarah Spencer
PowerPoint PDF
Working with civil society: what we have learned – Nicola Thomas & Hannah Gregory
PowerPoint PDF
Cooperation at the Municipal Level – Christina Pope
Interview & PowerPoint PDF
Local government and civil society cooperation in Athens – Antigone Kotanidis
PowerPoint PDF
Civil Society Engagement with States in the Global Compact for Migration – Colin Rajah
PowerPoint PDF
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