Synopses & Reviews
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 critically analyses the actors, discourses and practices of migration management.
Review
"In its entity it not only manages to accommodate the reader with the basic contours of international migration management but also performs a critical engagement with its discourse, actors and practices in the very best sense of a trans- and interdisciplinary edited volume." - Nordic Journal of Migration Research
About the Author
MARTIN GEIGER is a Research Fellow at IMIS, the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He has been affiliated with the European Migration Centre in Berlin, the EUROFOR offices in Florence and as a guest researcher with the Universities of Granada, Spain and Timisoara, Romania.
ANTOINE PÉCOUD is a Research Associate at the Unité de Recherche Migrations et Société (URMIS), University of Paris VII, France and at Migrations Internationales, Espaces et Sociétés (MIGRINTER), University of Poitiers, France, as well as a migration specialist at UNESCO in Paris.
Table of Contents
The Politics of International Migration Management;
M.Geiger &
A.PécoudLiberalizing Movements? The Political Rationality of Global Migration Management; S.Kalm
For the Benefit of Some: The International Organization for Migration and its Global Migration Management; F.Georgi
Imagined Migration World: The European Unions Anti-Illegal Immigration Discourse; W.Walters
'We are Facilitating States!' An Ethnographic Analysis of the International Centre for Policy Development; S.Hess
Borders and Populations in Flux: Frontex' Place in the European Union's Migration Management; B.Kasparek
Mobility, Development, Protection, EU-Integration! The IOMs National Migration Strategy for Albania; M.Geiger
Expanded Borders: Policies and Practices of Preventive Refoulement in Italy; C.Marchetti
Informing Migrants to Manage Migration? An Analysis of IOMs Information Campaigns; A.Pécoud
Migration Policy Development in Mauritania: Process, Issues, and Actors; P.Poutignat & J.Streiff-Fénart
International Refugee Law, 'Hyper-Legalism' and Migration Management: The Pacific Solution; C.Inder
Refugees or Migrants? The UNHCRs Comprehensive Approach to Afghan Mobility into Iran and Pakistan; G.Scalettaris
From 'The Whole Enchilada' to Financialization: Shifting Discourses of Migration Management in North America; M.Bakker