The IOM, Europe as a Best Practice Case and the Spread of Migration Management to Canada

This paper concentrates on the world’s leading intergovernmental agency in migration policy, the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Canada in many aspects of its migration policy has started to follow up on more restrictive approaches to migration, as practiced e.g. in Europe. In this context, also the IOM is likely to play a leading role. This paper discusses ongoing developments of policy outsourcing in the sphere of migration, by focusing on the case of Canada and comparing this case with historical and ongoing developments in Europe - one of the forerunners in regards of exterritorialization and externalization of migration policy programs, and one of the best "customers" of IOM and its migration management solutions.