MiCoNet talks: From migration routes to migration corridors in Africa and the Mediterranean

The objective of this presentation is to engage in a brainstorming session regarding the concept of corridors, drawing upon Ivan Martin's extensive practical experience and expertise. The discussion will encompass various scales of operationalization, with a focus on the political, economic and social visions that inform them. Additionally, the presentation will address the relationship between the structure of corridors and the agencies within them, offering a reflection on the utility of corridors as a category of analysis and for comparative research. Drawing upon Ivan Martin's background, the presentation will offer concrete empirical illustrations of the African-Mediterranean corridor and engage in a thorough discussion of the initial six premises of MiCoNet. Iván Martín is an economist. He is a Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, where he teaches a course on Comparative International Labour Migration Policies in the Master in Migration Studies, and Associate Researcher at the GRITIM-UPF and EuroMedMig. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and teaches at the Master in Global Affairs of the Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. Between 2013 and 2016 he was Part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the European University Institute in Florence, as well as member of the Expert Group on Economic Migration of the European Commission and Key Expert on Labour Migration providing External Technical Expertise on Migration to DG DEVCO of the European Commission (ETEM V Project). Formerly, he has been Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs-CIDOB (2014), where he was the scientific coordinator of a FP-7 project on Arab Youth; Associate Research Fellow at the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales in Madrid (2008-2013); Research Administrator at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus, Poland (2010-2011); Director of the Socio-Economic Forum of Casa Árabe (Arab House) and its International Institute for Arab and Muslim World Studies in Spain (2006-2008); and Adjunct Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2002-2006). He has coordinated several international research projects on labour migration and since 2010 he has worked as consultant and trainer on labour migration, youth employment and migration and development in more than 20 countries in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and in Latin America for the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization, the European Commission (DG DEVCO and EU Delegation in Morocco), the European Training Foundation, the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, the EuroMed Migration project and the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat, as well as AECID, GIZ and the Swiss Development Cooperation.