The International Organization for Migration: Challenges and Complexities of a Rising Humanitarian Actor

ISBN-13: 9781138818934 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 192 str.

Megan Bradley

Opis

This book provides an accessible, incisive introduction to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an important but under-examined agency and argues that understanding IOM’s involvement in humanitarian action and its involvement with displaced persons is pivotal to understanding the organization’s evolution and significance.

Spis treści

Introduction  Chapter 1: A servant of state masters? IOM’s mandate, structure, and culture  Chapter 2: An evolving humanitarian entrepreneur  Chapter 3: IOM in action: Contributions and controversies in Haiti and Libya  Chapter 4: The UN Migration Agency? IOM-UN relations  Chapter 5: Conclusion

O autorze

Megan Bradley is associate professor of political science and international development studies at McGill University, where her research focuses on refugees and forced migration, human rights, humanitarianism, transitional justice, and disasters. She is the author of Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress (2013), editor of Forced Migration, Reconciliation and Justice (2015) and co-editor of Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries (2019). From 2012-2014, she was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where she worked with the Brookings Project on Internal Displacement. She has also worked with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and served as the Cadieux-Léger Fellow at Global Affairs Canada.