From Refugees to Global Migration Management

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadako Ogata
Keyword(s):  
Global Migration ◽  
Migration Management

The Crisis Mentality of Russian Migration Management

2018 ◽  
pp. 536-552
Author(s):  
Caress Schenk
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Migration Crisis

Although on the periphery of the migrant-receiving world as traditionally conceived, Russia is well entrenched in the global migration crisis. Migration crisis in Russia is largely a political construction, yet it is often framed as any other type of crisis (e.g. terrorism, geopolitical conflict, economic crisis), marked by a perception of existential threat, urgent public pressure, and uncertainty. This discussion of Russian policymakers’ approach shows how routinizing crisis decision making, through repeated reactionary moves that are institutionalized into law, creates continued crisis feedback loops that reinforce short-term policy horizons and fails to address long-standing demographic and labor market problems related to migration.

Diaspora Engagement goes Global

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Alan Gamlen
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
World Society Theory ◽  
Sharing Responsibility ◽  
Diaspora Engagement

Chapter 8 shows how diaspora engagement shifted from a regional model of migration management to a global best practice. In the late 1990s, engaging diasporas was openly advocated by a range of regional organizations, but by 2006, the Secretary General of the United Nations had become a cheerleader. Drawing on concepts from World Society theory and the literature on Epistemic Communities, this chapter argues that the global spread of diaspora institutions is a response to the growth of a new global institution: a global migration regime. ‘Engaging diasporas’ has become a central theme in efforts to link migration with the international development agenda and build a decentralized but coherent system of global migration governance. It has been enthusiastically promoted by migration policy experts and international organizations, as a way of sharing responsibility for migration management without the need for a world migration organization. Governments around the world have responded to these recommendations by establishing diaspora institutions.

scholarly journals «The» or «A» leading organization in migration? IOM as an actor in global migration governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (34) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Stefan Rother ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Nation States ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
The One ◽  
Nations System

The emerging global governance of migration is characterized by its fragmentation in terms of institutions, underlying norms and conventions. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) holds a peculiar place within this framework: On the one side, it has been situated outside the United Nations System until very recently, considers itself a «non-normative» agency, and has mostly acted as a profit-based service provider for nation-states. On the other side, the IOM has been instrumental in establishing influential norms such as «migration management», it has been lauded «a leading agency on migration» by the UN and its member states, and moved closer to the UN system as a «related organization» in September 2016. However, the opposition to the original suggestion of calling the IOM «the leading agency on migration» highlights —beyond mere semantics— that the role of the organization is still nor clearly defined and remains contested. This contribution analyses the actorness IOM has achieved in global migration governance.

Understanding Suicide Terrorism

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (04) ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
A. Speckhard
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Suicide Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Single Region ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrorist Groups

SummaryAs a terror tactic, suicide terrorism is one of the most lethal as it relies on a human being to deliver and detonate the device. Suicide terrorism is not confined to a single region or religion. On the contrary, it has a global appeal, and in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan it has come to represent an almost daily reality as it has become the weapon of choice for some of the most dreaded terrorist organizations in the world, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. Drawing on over two decades of extensive field research in five distinct world regions, specifically the Middle East, Western Europe, North America, Russia, and the Balkans, the author discusses the origins of modern day suicide terrorism, motivational factors behind suicide terrorism, its global migration, and its appeal to modern-day terrorist groups to embrace it as a tactic.

Book Review

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-390
Author(s):  
Antonina Levatino
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategies ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Migration Control ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Controversial Nature

Martin Geiger & Antoine Pécoud (eds.), Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 271 pp., (ISBN 978-1-137-26306-3).In the last decades a very diverse range of initiatives have been undertaken in order to intensify and diversify the ways human mobility is managed and restricted. This trend towards a ‘diversification’ of the migration control strategies stems from the increased awareness by the nation-states of the profoundly controversial nature of the migration management enterprise because of its political, economic, social and moral implications.

Interacting Legal Norms and Cross-Border Divorce: Stories of Filipino Migrant Women in the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-529
Author(s):  
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Filipino Women ◽  
Transnational Social Spaces ◽  
Filipino Migrants

The Philippines is one of only two states in the world in which absolute divorce remains largely impossible. Through its family laws, it regulates the marriage, family life and conjugal separation of its citizens, including its migrants abroad. To find out how these family laws interact with those in the receiving country of Filipino migrants and shape their lives, the present paper examines the case of Filipino women who experienced or are undergoing divorce in the Netherlands. Drawing from semi-structured interviews and an analysis of selected divorce stories, it unveils the intertwined institutions of marriage and of divorce, the constraints but also possibilities that interacting legal norms bring in the life of Filipino women, and the way these migrants navigate such norms within their transnational social spaces. These findings contribute interesting insights into cross-border divorces in the present age of global migration.

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