Migration management, capacity building and the sovereignty of an African State: International Organization for Migration in Djibouti

Dini, Sabine

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1354058

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“…The IOM’s supposedly righteous transnational agency, ironically, rests on a mission of enforcing the righteousness of national rootedness and immobility. As Dini (2018) has shown, the IOM perpetuates a narrative of sedentarism as natural and immobility as proof of national allegiance, migration management governing not only non-citizens but serving as domestic state-building, nation-building, and citizenship-building projects.…”

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Irregular migration, borders, and the moral geographies of migration management

Watkins

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Migration management expresses the idealizations of policymakers: how they view the world’s ideal biopolitical and geopolitical organization. This article presents an analysis of an anti-irregular migration campaign funded by Australia and administered by the International Organization for Migration to deter “potential people smugglers” in Indonesia. The article demonstrates that the campaign attempted to normalize the idea that transporting irregular migrants was immoral and a sin. The Indonesia–Australia border and the Westphalian nation-state system were structured as moral geographies. The campaign framed immigration law as the ultimate determinant of moral and immoral migration, proclaiming a righteousness in immobilizing irregular migrants, regardless of circumstance. Per the campaign, moral migration is to be managed, and borders to be guarded, by unaccountable consultants for hire like the International Organization for Migration—states’ deputized migration managers. The article analyzes how irregular migration was structured as subverting and exploiting territorialized nations, how the campaign associated emplacement and boundedness with safety and irregular migration with a threatening, foreign, immorality. Finally, the article investigates how everyday spaces were infiltrated by bordering practices designed to normalize the campaign’s purported “truths” about morality and migration, showing the varying temporalities and scales of border-making and migration management.

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Irregular migration, borders, and the moral geographies of migration management

Watkins

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Yet this language obscures the significant political impact that the IOM's activities have on crimmigration control. As others have argued, the IOM contributes to the normalization of exclusionary migration control practices (Fine, 2018), reifies state power to the detriment of undocumented migrants (Dini, 2018), legitimizes a 'postimperial' global order (Andrijasevic and Walters, 2009) and carries out 'migration-related services that governments find themselves unable or unwilling to carry out for legal and political purposes' (Ashutosh and Mountz, 2011: 22).…”

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“…Border criminologists have conducted illuminating research into the role of non-state actors such as private corporations and non-governmental organizations in shaping crimmigration control practices (Bhatia and Canning, 2020;Infantino, 2016;Martin, 2017). Nonetheless, the IOM has thus far received only limited attention, usually by scholars of migration studies and international political sociology (Bartels, 2018;Dini, 2018;Fine, 2018;Frowd, 2020;Pécoud, 2018). If indeed migration control is a key dimension of contemporary penal power which operates at the scale of 'the global', then a critical examination of transnational actors of migration control is relevant to the contemporary projects of border criminology and TCJ.…”

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Biometric statehood, transnational solutionism and security devices: The performative dimensions of the IOM’s MIDAS

Singler

2021

Theoretical Criminology

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This article contributes to border criminology and transnational criminal justice research into the role of transnational actors in shaping practices of global justice, punishment and control, as well as to the criminological analysis of penal technologies. I examine the performative effects of the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) developed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and I argue that these effects are multidimensional. For beneficiary states, the deployment of MIDAS constitutes a performance of sovereign territorial power, affirming membership in the international society of (biometrically capable) states. For the IOM, the development and deployment of MIDAS and carrying out training sessions operate as pedagogical interventions legitimizing the organization as a neutral, technical expert of migration management. Finally, MIDAS itself performatively acts upon its targets, constituting ‘the migrant’ as a governable, potentially risky subject and constituting ‘migration’ as a problem amenable to depoliticized techno-solutionist interventions.

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“…The 2019 Refugee Law also provided that asylum seekers or refugees who have lived in Ethiopia for a 'protracted period' can be legally integrated into aspects of Ethiopia's national system such as certification of births and deaths and access to banking and primary education. Both the Ethiopian government and the EU acknowledged via the Partnership Framework the seriousness of irregular migration including increasingly perilous routes posing grave dangers to the fundamental rights and lives of migrants with implications also for peace, security and diplomatic relations of countries of origin, transit and destination (Dini 2018). In theory at least, the Framework provides a comprehensive approach to effective migration and border governance concerning observance of migrants' human rights and dignity.…”

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Localising Migration Diplomacy in Africa? Ethiopia in its Regional and International Setting

Geddes

Maru

2020

SSRN Journal

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The paper analyses African-European diplomatic relations on migration. It looks closely at the ideas and practices that inform migration relations between the African Union and the European to explore wider links between migration diplomacy and migration governance to assess divergent African and European understandings of migration governance and the diffusion of migration issues into domestic political agendas. To exemplify the argument, we focus in particular on Ethiopia's migration diplomacy, which we understand as interstate actions and interactions that are diplomatic in form, have a significant foreign policy dimension, and, have cross border mobility as their focus. We identify four key effects of migration diplomacy: a tension between free movement and containment that highlights divergent understandings of the causes and effects of migration and displacement between African and European countries; African engagement with the development of international norms and standards to which EU states are more ambivalent; a distraction effect away from migratory routes other than that towards the EU; and, the effects of diffusion of migration agendas into domestic politics in African countries.

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Migration management, capacity building and the sovereignty of an African State: International Organization for Migration in Djibouti

Cited by 37 publications

References 26 publications

Irregular migration, borders, and the moral geographies of migration management

Irregular migration, borders, and the moral geographies of migration management

Biometric statehood, transnational solutionism and security devices: The performative dimensions of the IOM’s MIDAS

Localising Migration Diplomacy in Africa? Ethiopia in its Regional and International Setting

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