Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North

The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North explores how the radically violent migration management paradigm that dominates today's international migration has been assembled. Drawing on unique archive material, it shows how a forum of diplomats and civil servants constructed the 'transit country' as a site in which the illegal migrant became the main actor to be vilified. Policy-makers are divided between those who oppose migration, and those who support it, so long as it is properly managed. Any other position is generally seen at best as utopian.

This volume advances a new way of conceptualizing policy-making in international migration at the regional and international level. Introducing the concept of 'informal plurilateralism', Oelgemöller explores how the Inter-Governmental Consultations on Asylum, Migration and Refugees (IGC), created the hegemonic paradigm of 'Migration Management', thus enabling today's specific ways the 'migrant' has their juridico-political status violently denied. This raises crucial questions about what democracy is and about the way in which the value of a human being is established, granted or denied.

Inviting debate in a field which is often under-theorized, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Migration Studies and International Relations Theory.

List of contents

Introduction

Part One: Migration Management as contested yet normalized discourse

1 Migration Management as guiding typology of policy practice

2 The migration nexi

Conclusion to Part One

Part Two: The emergence of Migration Management as recorded by the IGC

3 Geopolitical ruptures

4 The IGC’s informal plurilateralism

Conclusion to Part Two

Part Three: Ethico-political evaluation of Migration Management

5 Technocracy: banality of evil?

6 The generative potential of suspension

Conclusion to Part Three

Conclusion: Migration Management – disagreeing with violence and consensus-democracyAppendix 1: IGC documents cited

About the author

Christina Oelgemöller is a Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK.

Summary

The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North explores how the radically violent migration management paradigm that dominates today's international migration has been assembled.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Oelgemoeller, Christina Oelgemoller, Christina Oelgemöller, Oelgemoller Christina
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032097039
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209703-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Interventions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Central / national / federal government policies, Political structure and processes, Political parties and party platforms, Civics and citizenship, Central government policies, Global North / Industrialized or developed countries