UNU-GCM’s intervention at the Second Interactive Round Table at the United Nations High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development 2013 . The intervention highlights the gravely adverse implications of an increasing use of private actors in the enforcement of migration control functions for vulnerable migrants and for states’ existing international obligations. The role the private sector may have in supporting states to protect vulnerable migrants during the migration process needs, therefore to be examined, in contrast to measures focused on security enforcement, ensuring these sovereignty-related functions remain directly under state supervision.