M. Geiger & A. Pécoud 
The Politics of International Migration Management [PDF ebook] 

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 Content

Foreword; M.Geiger & A.Pécoud Notes on Contributors The Politics of International Migration Management; M.Geiger A.Pécoud Liberalizing 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 Union’s 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 IOM’s 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 IOM’s 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 UNHCR’s 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

About the author

MATT BAKKER is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, USA FABIAN GEORGI is a Research Associate at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt (Main), Germany SABINE HESS is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Folklore Studies and European Ethnology of the Ludwig-Maximilan University of Munich, Germany CLAIRE INDER practices international law in Geneva, Switzerland SARA KALM is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden BERND KASPAREK is currently writing his doctoral thesis at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany CHIARA MARCHETTI is Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Milan, Italy PHILIPPE POUTIGNAT is a Sociologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Research Centre Unité de Recherche Migrations et Société, URMIS, University of Nice, France GIULIA SCALETTARIS is a Ph D Student in Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France JOCELYNE STREIFF-FENART is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Director of the Research Unit on Migration and Society (URMIS) located both in Paris and Nice, France WILLIAM WALTERS teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology/Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada