ABSTRACT The Global Compact for Migration (GCM) involves the establishment of an implementation mechanism that combines the periodic organisation of deliberation and information exchange between states with the routine drafting of texts and the design of governmental technologies. The GCM also tasked the UN Network on Migration (Network) with supporting the implementation mechanism in response to the needs of states. To achieve this task, the Network aimed to play a role in creating and maintaining the implementation mechanism and to leverage its expert knowledge to shape the states’ implementation efforts. This article asks how the Network has institutionalised the implementation mechanism and with what consequences for its expert authority vis-à-vis states. Drawing on insights from discursive institutionalism, the article conducts a critical discourse analysis of texts that communicate and describe the Network’s institutional work between 2019 and 2022. It demonstrates that the Network institutionalised the implementation mechanism as an experimentalist institution to bolster its expert authority and position itself as a central unit in the GCM implementation that monitors and steers the actions of states. However, the Network’s position as a central unit does not fundamentally challenge the centrality of state sovereignty in global migration governance.
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