Suchergebnisse

Foreword / Pierre Sané -- Introduction: the migration without borders scenario / Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire -- Theoretical issues -- The economics and politics of the free movement of people / Nigel Harris -- The frontiers of mobility / Catherine Wihtol de Wenden -- The ethics, economics and governance of free movement / Mehmet Ugur -- Managing migration: towards the missing regime? / Bimal Ghosh -- Open borders and the welfare state / Han Entzinger -- Regional perspectives -- Europe without borders: rhetoric, reality or utopia? / Jan Kunz and Mari Leinonen -- Creating a borderless West Africa: constraints and prospects for intra-regional migration / Aderanti Adepoju -- Histories, realities and negotiating free movement in Southern Africa / Sally Peberdy and Jonathan Crush -- Migration without borders: a long way to go in the Asian region / Graziano Battistella -- A world without borders? Mexican immigration, new boundaries and transnationalism in the United States / Alejandro I. Canales and Israel Montiel Armas -- The free circulation of skilled migrants in North America / Rafael Alarcn -- Migration policies and socioeconomic boundaries in the South American cone / Alicia Maguid -- Notes on contributors -- Index

1. Introduction: The International Organization for Migration as the New 'UN Migration Agency' -- 2. Unfinished Business: The IOM and Migrants' Human Rights -- 3. Gendering Migration Management -- 4. Drivers of Expenditure Allocation in IOM: Refugees, Donors, and International Bureaucracy -- 5. Between Migration and Development: The IOM's Development Fund -- 6. Measuring 'Well-Governed' Migration: The IOM's Migration Governance Indicators -- 7. The IOM in Building and Supporting Migration Management in China -- 8. Knowledge Production at the IOM: Looking for Local Knowledge in Tajikistan -- 9. The IOM's Missing Migrants Project: The Global Authority on Border Deaths -- 10. The IOM's Humanitarian Border Management in the West African Ebola Crisis (2014–2016) -- 11. Humanitarian Detention and Deportation: The IOM and Anti-Trafficking in Laos -- 12. The IOM's Crisis Management and the Expulsion of Ethiopians from Saudi Arabia -- 13. Possible Futures? The New 'UN Migration Agency' and the Shifting Global Order.

A core feature of contemporary migration politics lies in the claim to regulate and discipline the cross- border mobility of people "through", "in the interest of" and "with the help of" the very individuals that cross national borders. Popularized by notions such as "smart borders" or "migration management", these practices and technologies raise important questions regarding strategies of migration control, the exercise of power, and their effects on individuals, societies and states. This volume scrutinizes these new developments and shows that mobility and migration politics are based on a mix of traditional coercive interventions and less repressive and indirect practices. Both types of practices are shown to pertain to the common conceptual umbrella provided by the notion of discipline. The contributors discuss disciplining strategies that, while apparently different, share the common objective of making sense of, ordering and, ultimately, steering and "managing" human mobility.

"'International migration management' is a new concept for understanding and rethinking migration flows. Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration, are developing new approaches aimed at renewing migration policy-making. This includes calls for cooperation between governments to govern migration flows; an understanding that migration is a normal process in a globalizing world rather than a problem; a 'post-control' spirit that goes beyond the restrictions on peoples' mobility to draft proactive policies; and a promotion of holistic approaches to migration, not only centred on security or labour, but also on development and human rights. This book critically analyses the actors, discourses and practices of migration management, including both empirical investigations of new forms of migration policy and analytical explorations of their political and ideological foundations."--Provided by publisher.

In the absence of a binding and coherent international migration regime, the global governance of migration relies on normative narratives produced by UN agencies and other intergovernmental forums, in line with the discursive legitimacy traditionally associated with international organizations. Such narratives impact migrants, asylum-seekers, and refugees because they support certain policy frameworks among member states. Yet, global migration governance remains fragmented, especially as far as the long-standing divide between the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is concerned. This article contributes to this discussion by applying corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to the narratives produced by these two organizations. The article identifies some of the dominant worldviews in the narratives of IOM and UNHCR. Results show that IOM and UNHCR have distinct worldviews, associated with different textual patterns, and that, while IOM's textual productions seem to influence UNHCR's discourses, the opposite is less true. This would support the view that IOM is currently the leading actor in terms of framing migration, thereby exerting a strong influence on global migration governance.

Migrant deaths in border-zones have become a major social and political issue, especially in the context of the Euro-Mediterranean refugee/migrant crisis. While media, activists, and policy makers often mention precise figures regarding the number of deaths, little is known about the production of statistical data on this topic. This article explores the politics of counting migrant deaths in Europe. This statistical activity was initiated in the 1990s by civil society organizations with the purpose of shedding light on the deadly consequences of "Fortress Europe" and of challenging states' control-oriented political strategies. In 2013, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) started to count migrants' deaths: while this intergovernmental organization seems to follow up on civil society initiatives, it actually works with different political objectives. Rather than criticizing states, IOM aims at conciliating the control of irregular migration with the prevention of deaths. IOM's statistics on border deaths illustrate the humanitarianization of the border, as denunciation of migrants' deaths and life-saving activities become integrated in border management and border control. In producing statistics on border deaths, IOM depoliticizes this data and challenges the critical framework that was central to earlier civil society initiatives. Finally, the article explores ways in which statistics on border deaths are being repoliticized to challenge European states' immigration policies.