In person icon International Organizations as Migration Policymakers

Abstract

Migration is qua its nature a global issue. Yet, international agreements are often minimal and legally non-binding. The reasons, such as politicization and sovereignty costs, are well-researched. However, what remains underexplored are the consequences of deadlock in official policy-making forums: Does it entail that no migration policies are made, or can we observe shifts in decision-making forms and arenas? The panel brings together a set of papers that investigate how international organizations (IOs) navigate the contested terrain of global migration policy-making. With a background in migration studies, public policy, political sociology, European Studies and IR, they unpack different decision-making sites within and between IOs to investigate how knowledge, practice, and (crisis) discourses shape international migration and asylum policies. With this panel, we thus shed new light on how migration IOs, mainly IOM and UNHCR, act as global governors and move the debate on where and how global public policies are made forward.

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“Sooner or Faster”? How IOM and UNHCR Change Policy Norms for the Protection of Forced Migrants	View Paper Details
A Participatory Turn in Migration Governance? Access to International Organisations for People with Lived Experience of Migration	View Paper Details
The Evolution of Return: UNHCR’s Strategic Engagement with Refugee Repatriation	View Paper Details
The EU and Global Migration Governance: Window Dressing or Effective Partnership?	View Paper Details
Donor-Recipient Dynamics in the IOM: A Historical Analysis	View Paper Details