The 2011 Report on International Cooperation on Migration (ICM) forms the basis of the Swiss foreign policy on migration. It asserts that the main actors of the Swiss foreign policy on migration are the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Human Security Division (HSD), the geographical departments of the Directorate of Political Affairs of the FDFA, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the Federal Office of Police, the Border Guard, and the Federal Office of Public Health. The HSD also drew up its own section on the foreign policy on migration this summer.

In late 2016, the Federal Council evaluated the existing structures of international cooperation on migration and compiled the results into a report. The aim was to highlight the possibilities for strengthening the partnership between the departments involved in the foreign policy on migration and for more efficient structuring of the ICM’s strategy.

The duties of Eduard Gnesa, the special envoy for international cooperation on migration issues who retired in early 2017, were divided among the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) and the FDFA. In the FDFA, a new ambassador position for development, flight, and migration was created, which was filled by Pietro Mona in September 2017.