This article discusses the promotion of policy coherence of migration and development policies that have figured high on the agenda of international organizations and the European Union but have been hardly explored in the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Based on in‐depth interviews with 40 Czech experts on migration and development, we identified three key contradictions: (i) The increasing prominence of a security perspective on both migration and development policies and the lack of coherence between these policies in practice; (ii) The tension between the national and transnational perspectives guiding migration policymaking and development policies; and (iii) The lack of reflection on crucial issues, such as remittances and brain drain, in the dominant paradigm of labour migration. We argue that the findings on (in)coherence between Czech migration and development policies help us understand policy responses of Central and Eastern European governments since the 2015 ‘migration crisis’.

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协同还是差异？捷克专家对移民和发展政策的见解


本文讨论了促进移民和发展政策的政策一致性，这些政策在国际组织和欧盟的议程中占据重要地位，但在中欧和东欧的背景下却很少被探讨。基于对40位捷克移民与发展问题专家的深入访谈，我们发现了三个关键矛盾：（i）移民和发展政策中的安全视角日益突出，而这些政策在实践中缺乏一致性； ㈡ 指导移民决策和发展政策的国家和跨国观点之间的紧张关系； (iii) 劳工移民的主流范式缺乏对汇款和人才流失等关键问题的反思。我们认为，关于捷克移民与发展政策之间一致性（不）一致性的研究结果有助于我们理解自 2015 年“移民危机”以来中欧和东欧政府的政策反应。