The Politics of International Migration Management

M. Geiger, A. Pécoud, M. Geiger, A. Pécoud

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780230272583
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230294882
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Civil Rights in Law
• Index: Law

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 book, now in paperback, critically analyzes the actors, discourses and practices of migration management.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Note on the Contributors
• 1 The Politics of International Migration Management
• 2 Liberalizing Movements? The Political Rationality of Global Migration Management
• 3 For the Benefit of Some: The International Organization for Migration and its Global Migration Management
• 4 Imagined Migration World: The European Union’s Anti-Illegal Immigration Discourse
• 5 ‘We are Facilitating States!’ An Ethnographic Analysis of the ICMPD
• 6 Borders and Populations in Flux: Frontex’s Place in the European Union’s Migration Management
• 7 Mobility, Development, Protection, EU-Integration! The IOM’s National Migration Strategy for Albania
• 8 Expanded Borders: Policies and Practices of Preventive Refoulement in Italy
• 9 Informing Migrants to Manage Migration? An Analysis of IOM’s Information Campaigns
• 10 Migration Policy Development in Mauritania: Process, Issues and Actors
• 11 International Refugee Law, ‘Hyper-Legalism’ and Migration Management: The Pacific Solution
• 12 Refugees or Migrants? The UNHCR’s Comprehensive Approach to Afghan Mobility into Iran and Pakistan
• 13 From ‘The Whole Enchilada’ to Financialization: Shifting Discourses of Migration Management in North America
• Index