How you can use the ACGCM:
1. Find scholars with common/complementary interests to form GCM-themed panel submissions for annual meetings of professional associations, especially those with migration sections, e.g., the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association (ENMISA), American Political Science Association Migration and Citizenship Section, International Sociological Association Sociology of Migration Research Committee, European Sociological Association Sociology of Migration Research Network, etc., or to annual migration studies meetings, such as those of the International Metropolis Project and IMISCOE
2. Identify possible presenters/paper givers for GCM-related workshops and conferences that you may be organizing at your university or research organization or in conjunction with professional meetings as, for example, often occurs the day before the annual International Studies Association meeting and is supported by a Research Workshop Grant Program.
3. Identify possible contributors to journal special issues or edited volumes related to the GCM (e.g., the forthcoming International Migration special issue) or perhaps a volume editor needs a paper on the GCM dimension of a given topic, e.g., a paper on how the GCM addresses human trafficking for a volume that addresses the topic of human trafficking more generally.
4. Find collaborators for research grant proposals responding to calls from national research agencies and foundations.
5. Share information about new GCM-related publications and reports.
6. Share information about UN meetings regarding the GCM or meetings in some significant way related to it.
7. Council members who attend GCM-related UN meetings should feel free to identify themselves as members of the ACGCM and encourage other academics and researchers working in government agencies, IGOs and NGOs who are in attendance to consider joining the ACGCM as well.
8. If Council members attend such UN meetings, it would be great if they would send a brief report about the meeting to the rest of us via the listserv, especially if there was any discussion of academia, data collection and research toward evidence-based policymaking.
9. Given that some Council members may wish to support efforts to implement the Compact as a whole or some of its objectives while others may not be interested in becoming involved with governments, international organizations and/or NGOs, I suggest that like-minded Council members may form groups to monitor/support implementation and engage relevant governments, IOs and NGOs.
10. Groups of ACGCM members can meet virtually using Zoom, Skye or other similar web meeting platforms to discuss their common interests. In addition to simply identifying other Council members and approaching them individually, members could use the ACGCM listserv to send a notice soliciting interest in a topic to be discussed on a given date and time or set up a doodle poll for scheduling a web.