The International Organization for Migration in North Africa: Making International Migration Management 103206854X, 9781032068541

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Crises and conflicts of the expanding border regime in Morocco and Tunisia
IOs and the politics of migration management in North Africa
A praxeological perspective to migration control in the Mediterranean
Outline of the book
1 A praxeological approach to the politics of international migration management
1.1 The framework of a border regime and the Autonomy of Migration thesis
1.2 Practice-theoretical approaches to international politics
1.3 A Bourdieusian perspective on the politics of international migration management
1.3.1 Field
1.3.2 Habitus
1.3.3 Symbolic capital, power, and violence
1.3.4 Struggles as the engine of stability and change
1.4 Outline of a praxeological research perspective on the politics of international migration management
2 The IOM in the trans-Mediterranean field of migration management
2.1 The emergence of the IOM in international migration politics
2.2 From securitization to international migration management in North Africa
2.2.1 Migration in and from North Africa
2.2.2 The securitization and externalization of migration control
2.2.3 Contested positions and relations in trans- Mediterranean migration politics
2.3 Shifting discourses, practices, and actors in trans- Mediterranean migration management
3 Information campaigns: migration management as a global duty for education
3.1 Preventing populations at risk of migration in Morocco
3.1.1 Practices and meanings of prevention: The SALEM project in Morocco
3.1.2 The symbolic violence of constructing and infantilizing risk groups
3.1.3 The symbolic power of informing and forming responsible individuals
3.1.4 “But they know it is dangerous”—contradictions and contestations in the field
3.2 Participatory migration management in Tunisia
3.2.1 Communicating opportunities to the benefit of fall? The START project
3.2.2 The symbolic power of the IOM’s cinematography: The SALEMM project
3.2.3 “If the people were really convinced, they would not have left”—the doubtful impact of virtual migration management
3.3 The symbolic power of neoliberal risk management: why potential migrants would (not) participate in their own management
4 Voluntary return programs: migration management as a moral responsibility to protect
4.1 The IOM’s promise of a cost-effective and humane alternative to deportation
4.1.1 Competition in the voluntary return business
4.1.2 Migrants’ encounters with an international bureaucracy
4.1.3 Donor influence and the international play of funding (ir)rationalities
4.1.4 Rising demand in the context of repressive state politics
4.1.5 The IOM as a travel agency: practices of appropriation and repair
4.2 Voluntary return as humanitarian crisis management in Tunisia
4.2.1 The symbolic production of a humanitarian crisis at the Tunisian-Libyan border
4.2.2 Practices of divide, rule, and return in the North African borderlands
4.2.3 In the camp: postcolonial relations and patriarchal logic
4.2.4 In the office: The illusio of humanitarian migration management
4.3 The humanitarian politics of return: revisiting strategies, struggles, and stakes in the field of international migration management
4.2.4 In the office: The illusio of humanitarian migration management
4.2.5 Making invisible: Tunisia’s Local Integration Program and IOs’ retreat from the field
4.2.6 “At least Choucha is free”: a space of rumors and hope
4.2.7 Voluntary return within cycles of criminalization and illegalization
4.2.8 Struggles for durable solutions: beyond charity and “associative things”
5 Anti-trafficking politics: migration management as a struggle for hard facts and soft influence
5.1 Mainstreaming migration politics in times of transition
5.1.1 Producing knowledge on human trafficking
5.1.2 The play of international conferences
5.2 Victims of trafficking as a new target group of migration management
5.2.1 Forced, sold, prostituted—defining VoTs through female suffering
5.2.2 Protecting vulnerable migrants
5.2.3 The prevention of risk groups
5.3 Building capacities and negotiating laws
5.3.1 The symbolic power of law- and policy-making in Tunisia
5.3.2 Repressive migration control in the name of anti- trafficking in Morocco
5.3.3 “They take everything!”—perceptions of the IOM’s position and influence
5.4 Compassion and repression in mainstreaming anti- trafficking politics
Conclusion
Change and stability in the trans-Mediterranean field of migration management
The IOM as a global expert for (not only) migration
The praxeological approach reconsidered
Index