Research: Policy co-planning strategies in migration policies. The case study of the development of humanitarian corridors.
Global phenomena such as migration, with multiple causes and complex social impacts, to be governed, increasingly need approaches inspired by the principles of participatory democracy, as well as to deal both with their internal and external dimensions. Thus, the project explores the topic of policy co-planning strategies, by examining its mechanisms as an endogenous factor in migration policies in Italy and Europe, in the current period of "refugee crisis". From the literature on migration policies and the related debates, it is increasingly conceivable an alternative model related to immigration policy-making that, contemplating a more widespread stakeholders' involvement, is also oriented at linking - rather than separating - the two internal and external dimensions of the governance of the phenomenon. However, if excessive specialism makes it difficult to affirm it, on the other hand the theme of policy co-planning (intended as an exercise in deliberative democracy) also in recent arguments such as humanitarian corridors is almost never studied in terms of policies. Therefore, with the methodological perspective of multi-level governance of migration policies, the research intends to investigate how - and with what limits - the experiences of the migration phenomenon can be governed by a co-planning logic. Humanitarian corridors are becoming increasingly important in this regard, as a graft of possible public-private balances of a multilevel and two-dimensional nature in the international protection of vulnerable persons. The research is articulated as twosome: on the one hand, on the study of co-planning (and co-production) from a theoretical point of view – also oriented at thematizing the policy "co-design" – and on the other hand, on the empirical study (supported by comparison) of the elements that determine access to this exercise, its link with the logics of action of the actors, and the construction of the issue networks’ dynamics.