This approach, defined by the European Commission as the external dimension of the European Union's (EU) migration policy, contributes to the relocation of the attention paid by the EU in the field of migration management to the beginning of the migratory chain.
Apart from addressing regional irregular migration through awareness raising and building migration management capacity of countries in the region, the IOM should also be facilitating the formalisation of labour migration agreements between these countries.
Through its implementation, the Mobility Partnership implies an exercise of socialization between local actors and European experts, "contributing to the diffusion of knowledge and technologies related to migration management into the registries of practices of the partner countries".
In European migration management policies, return of unwanted migrants, such as asylum seekers whose claim was rejected or expired after a conflict has ended, therefore became a priority since the 1990s (Hammond, 1999; Omata, 2013; Stein & Cuny, 1994).
For Moldova and Georgia, the cooperation with the EU in the field of migration management, although asymmetrical, corresponds to their objective of facilitating the access to the territory of the EU for their citizens and more globally, to their aspirations of eventually integrating the Union.
Therefore, the formation of migration management regimes does not occur without the complicity of other high level of institutions.
With the objective to develop closer relations with its neighbours following the 2004 enlargement, the EU launched the European Neighbourhood Policy European Commissionn, 2003), which further contributed to the transfer of the European "best practices" in the field of migration management.
Today, government outsourcing has given rise to an industry that encompasses nearly every aspect of migration management in countries across the globe.
Over the years, the European Union has woven a web of relations with its neighbours through intersecting policy instruments, aiming at prescribing its norms of migration management, more specifically with regards to restrictive migration control.
As for the international protection pillar, by looking at the matrix of initiatives in all of our study cases, we can only notice the weak support towards this dimension of migration management.
