Le difficoltà dell'inclusione degli immigrati

In recent years, migration and development policy discussions have slowly but surely edged closer to each other on the international stage. A direct line of debate joins the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, issued in 2015, and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, adopted in December 2018; both represent important milestones in the effort to derive more benefit from the relationship between migration and development. Although the Global Compact is not explicitly a development manifesto, it addresses many of the elements that link migration to a broad conception of human development, reflected in the compact’s concern for the protection of migrants’ rights and for their social and economic inclusion.
Rounding out a collaborative project between the Migration Policy Institute and the German Development Cooperation Agency that has provided a development perspective on the Global Compact, this policy brief draws together findings on key topics addressed in the compact. Many of the thorniest challenges for compact negotiators, explored in this research, cluster around three areas: the complexity of the relationship between migration on development, labor mobility at both higher and lower skill levels, and the governance of international mi- gration.
Policymakers frequently make the assumption that development, aided by international development cooperation, will reduce migration. Yet there is little hard evidence on how these two forces affect each other, and what research exists indicates that rising incomes in migrants’ countries of origin are often correlated with an increase—not a decrease—in migration, as more people can afford the costs of a journey abroad. Migration decisions are