ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses venues taking place after the Berlin Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). It revolves around the idea of ‘invited’ versus ‘invented’ spaces. From this perspective the chapter relates in to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) agreed upon by governments on an intergovernmental conference 10–11 December 2018 in Marrakech and formally adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 19 December 2018. The focus is on civil society’s perceptions of the GCM, and potentials for following up intentions of the compact through ‘invited spaces’ for dialogue with governments and international organizations on the road from Marrakech. The chapter presents a short presentation of professed ‘invented spaces’ for solidarity mobilization of social movements and their strategies for social inclusion: the People’s Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights, the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, La Via Campesina, Churches Witnessing With Migrants and the World Social Forum on Migration.