1st Edition

The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North

By Christina Oelgemoller Copyright 2017
214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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.... Read more

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

Biography

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

"This intriguing book by Christina Oelgemöller – an interdisciplinary scholar and researcher with a talent for transcending conventional approaches to analysis – offers a theoretically well-informed and in-depth geopolitical analysis of the migration man-agement phenomenon. She elaborates on the social constructions of ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ migrant underpinning the contemporary migration management policies and practices of the global North."

Romana Zidar, Senior Researcher, Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana