This Lecture is part of the IES Lectures Series 'The Multilevel Governance of Migration and Immigrant Intergration' organised by the Institute for European Studies and the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).This lecture series intends to provide a comprehensive overview of how migration and migrant integration are governed from the global to the local level, why policy output is the way it is, what are the future policy challenges and how interactions between governance levels determine policy output and policy outcome.