Possible Futures? The New ‘UN Migration Agency’ and the Shifting Global Order

Geiger, Martin

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32976-1_13

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“…Migration and legal scholars have comprehensively outlined what led up to the signing of the UN–IOM agreement, what its impacts are, and why the IOM opted for ‘related’ as opposed to ‘specialised’ agency status (e.g. Geiger, 2020 ; Grant et al, 2017 ; Lebon-McGregor, 2020 ; Rother, 2020 ). 28 For our purposes, the most interesting aspect of the updated relationship is that the IOM is still able to retain its independence which, as highlighted by Geiger ( 2020 ), was something that the IOM’s Member States were keen to preserve and thus pushed for the IOM to only become a UN ‘related’ agency.…”

Section: Instituting Migration As a Global Governing Spherementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Geiger, 2020 ; Grant et al, 2017 ; Lebon-McGregor, 2020 ; Rother, 2020 ). 28 For our purposes, the most interesting aspect of the updated relationship is that the IOM is still able to retain its independence which, as highlighted by Geiger ( 2020 ), was something that the IOM’s Member States were keen to preserve and thus pushed for the IOM to only become a UN ‘related’ agency. This distinction means that the IOM has no official reporting obligation to the UN and that it can operate with greater freedom and flexibility than other UN migration-related agencies (Grant et al, 2017 ; Hennebry & Piper, 2021 ).…”

Section: Instituting Migration As a Global Governing Spherementioning

confidence: 99%

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Global partnerships in governing labour migration: the uneasy relationship between the ILO and IOM in the promotion of decent work for migrants

Piper

Foley

2021

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This paper examines the multi-actor and multi-sited character of global labour migration governance as a sphere in which various organisations seek influence on the direction of global policy via various methods. We focus on the relational dynamics between the two key organisations which engage in the governance of labour migration, yet which have fundamentally different mandates and modes for governing: the ILO and the IOM. This paper contributes to the existing literature on global migration governance and the role of international organisations by applying the concept of ‘global partnerships’ to our examination of the relationship between those two key international organisations in the field of migration. We characterise the evolving ILO–IOM global partnership as an uneasy alliance along a “competition/clash-cooperation spectrum” and argue that, in order to manage the competing-cooperating dynamics, a type of strategic ILO–IOM partnership has emerged, an alliance which has also been driven by the blurring of public and private realms in new global migration governing forms and formats. The ultimate question raised by these developments is whether this global partnership will promote or obstruct the advancement of the decent work policy agenda for migrant workers.

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Section: Instituting Migration As a Global Governing Spherementioning

confidence: 99%