Credible legal pathways: Between political promise and actual capacity
Strategic guidelines to turn legal pathways into effective and sustainable mechanisms.
Executive summary
Legal pathways remain politically attractive but operationally marginal. The challenge is not to announce more programmes, but to make them transparent, accessible and measurable.
Strategic messages
- Publish comparable consular indicators.
- Reduce documentary and financial barriers.
- Link mobility schemes to training, labour demand and reintegration.
- Move from short-term pilots to durable territorial strategies.
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