The politics of international migration management

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Pécoud Antoine 1974-; Geiger Martin 1975-
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Migration, minorities, and citizenship
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Carrier Form: x, 305 p.: ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780230272583 (alk. paper)
0230272584 (alk. paper)
Index Number: D523
CLC: D523.8-01
Call Number: D523.8-01/P769-1
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
The politics of international migration management / Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud -- Liberalizing movements? The political rationality of global migration management / Sara Kalm -- For the benefit of some : the international organization for migration and its global migration management / Fabian Georgi -- Imagined migration world : the European Union's anti-illegal immigration discourse / William Walters -- 'We are facilitating states!' An ethnographic analysis of the ICMPD / Sabine Hess -- Borders and populations in flux : Frontex's place in the European Union's migration management /
International migration management' is a new concept for understanding and rethinking migration flows. 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 includes calls for cooperation between governments to govern migration flows; an understanding that migration is a normal process in a globalizing world rather than a problem; a 'post-control' spirit that goes beyond the restrictions on peoples' mobility to draft proactive policies; and a pr