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

Author : Antoine Pécoud

Published in: The International Organization for Migration

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the edited volume entitled The International Organization for Migration: The New ‘UN Migration Agency’ in Critical Perspective. It outlines the key findings of each chapter and identifies the core cross-cutting arguments that emerge from the chapters of this book. After providing a short history of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) until its transformation into a United Nations (UN) agency in 2016, the chapter summarises the key issues raised by research on the IOM along four key topics: state sovereignty, the global economy, humanitarian protection/human rights, and knowledge production.

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Footnotes
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For detailed information on the IOM’s history, see Bast 2010; Ducasse-Rogier 2002; Elie 2010; Feldblum 1999; Georgi 2010, 2019; In-Chuen Koh 2009; Karatani 2005; Perruchoud 1989; Venturas 2015.
 
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Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany (Federal Republic), Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey and the US.
 
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It is worth recalling here that the IOM negotiates preferential fares with a large range of airlines and is therefore in a position to transport migrants at low costs.
 
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For example, the IOM regularly publishes a kind of ‘catalogue’ that proposes a list of relevant projects to be funded by governments or other donors: the organisation thus identifies and defines potential ‘initiatives’ and actively ‘sells’ them to states (see IOM 2018).
 
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Metadata
Title
Introduction: The International Organization for Migration as the New ‘UN Migration Agency’
Author
Antoine Pécoud
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
The International Organization for Migration

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-32975-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-32976-1

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32976-1_1