The International Organization for Migration: The New 'un Migration Agency' in Critical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783030329754 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 316 str.

Martin Geiger; Antoine Pecoud

Recenzje

"Understanding the present and future of global migration governance requires a thorough engagement with the IOM. ... Geiger and Pécoud's volume is an important contribution towards redressing that gap. It offers readers a critical and thought-provoking analysis of the neo-liberal, technocratic and depoliticizing logics that underlie the IOM's discourse and practice. ... this volume is an important resource for scholars interested in the current transformations of migration management and their potential implications at global, regional and local levels." (João Terrenas, International Affairs, Vol. 97 (3), 2021)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The International Organization for Migration as the New ‘UN Migration Agency’

Antoine Pécoud 

2. Unfinished Business: The IOM and Migrants’ Human Rights

Elspeth Guild, Stefanie Grant, and Kees Groenendijk

3. Gendering Migration Management

Rianne Mahon

4. Drivers of Expenditure Allocation in the IOM: Refugees, Donors, and International Bureaucracy

Ronny Patz and Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir

5. Between Migration and Development: The IOM’s Development Fund

Erin Newman-Grigg

6. Measuring ‘Well-Governed’ Migration: The IOM’s Migration Governance Indicators

Corey Robinson

7. The IOM in Building and Supporting Migration Management in China

Yadi Zhang and Martin Geiger

8. Knowledge Production at the IOM: Looking for Local Knowledge in Tajikistan  

Karolina Kluczewska

9. The IOM’s Missing Migrants Project: The Global Authority on Border Deaths 

Yussef Al Tamimi, Paolo Cuttitta, and Tamara Last

10. The IOM’s Humanitarian Border Management in the West African Ebola Crisis (2014–2016) 

Tilmann Scherf

11. Humanitarian Detention and Deportation: The IOM and Anti-Trafficking in Laos

Estelle Miramond

12. The IOM’s Crisis Management and the Expulsion of Ethiopians from Saudi Arabia

Clara Lecadet

13. Possible Futures? The New ‘UN Migration Agency’ and the Shifting Global Order

Martin Geiger

O autorze

Martin Geiger is Associate Professor of Politics of Human Migration and Mobility at Carleton University, Canada, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing, and Corresponding Member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies in Osnabrueck, Germany.

Antoine Pécoud is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 13, a Research Associate at CERI/Sciences Po, and a Fellow of the Institut des Migrations, France. 

Blurb

‘This book recasts with brio the IOM’s transformation. The result is impressive and thought-provoking.’

—Didier Bigo, Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po Paris, France

‘Rich case studies show the interplay between the IOM’s soft power and its tendency to serve the will of powerful patrons. For an inside view of a process that continues to unfold, look no further than this volume.’

—David Scott FitzGerald, Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego, USA

‘A much needed and timely book. This book critically investigates the new role of the IOM as the UN agency responsible for managing people flows and borders.’

—Anna Triandafyllidou, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Ryerson University Toronto, Canada

‘The most up-to-date and encompassing research on the IOM. A must-read for those who are interested in migration and mobility studies, and the increasing role of the IOM in migration politics.’

—Zhenjiang Zhang, Professor and Dean, School of International Studies and Academy of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University Guangzhou, China

In 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) became part of the United Nations. With 173 member states and more than 400 field offices, the IOM—the new ‘UN migration agency’—plays a key role in migration governance. The contributors in this volume provide an in-depth and comprehensive insight into the IOM, its transformation, current structure and projects, as well as its capacity, self-understanding and political agenda.

Martin Geiger is Associate Professor of Politics of Human Migration and Mobility at Carleton University, Canada, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing, and Corresponding Member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies in Osnabrueck, Germany.

Antoine Pécoud is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 13, a Research Associate at CERI/Sciences Po, and a Fellow of the Institut des Migrations, France.