Chris Horwood is the senior adviser with the Mixed Migration Centre in Geneva. He has been involved in the humanitarian and development sector for more than 30 years. In the past decade he has focused on migration issues, including human smuggling and trafficking. While working for the Danish Refugee Council, Chris was the founding coordinator of the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS) in East Africa and Yemen, while based in Nairobi between 2011 and 2016, and during that time established the Mixed Migration Monitoring Mechanism – 4Mi. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/chris-horwood/rss en Laws & Policy Solutions Tue, 22 Jan 2019 07:30:00 +0000 Chris Horwood https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2019/01/22/its-time-for-a-more-honest-less-partisan-debate-on-mixed-migration https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2019/01/22/its-time-for-a-more-honest-less-partisan-debate-on-mixed-migration Mixed migration flows represent a small proportion of human mobility but have seriously disrupted migration and refugee policy as well as politics worldwide. We need a sober, forward-looking discussion of the issues, argues Mixed Migration Centre analyst Chris Horwood.