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Managing Migration in the IOM’s World Migration Report 2008

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The International Organization for Migration (IOM)2 was founded in 1951, originally as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) to deal with resettlement of displaced persons, refugees and migrants in the aftermath of the Second World War (Olsen 2002; Wennerholm/Zillen 2003). It acquired its current structure and profile in 1989 and now has more than 125 member countries and almost 7,000 staff worldwide, led from a headquarters in Geneva. IOM’s website describes it as “the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration”, concerned with cooperation to promote international migration law, migration policy debate and guidance, migrants’ rights, and attention to health and gender dimensions of migration. What are the assumptions, values and beliefs about migration seen in IOM’s current research and proposals?

“Labour migration is now acknowledged as an integral part of the global economic landscape” (IOM 2008: 4).

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    Des Gasper

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  1. Beatriz Campillo Carrete
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  1. Institute of Social Studies, Kortenaerkade 12, s-Gravenhage, 2518 AX, Netherlands

    Thanh-Dam Truong

  2. Institute of Social Studies, Kortenaerkade 12, s-Gravenhage, 2518 AX, Netherlands

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Carrete, B.C., Gasper, D. (2011). Managing Migration in the IOM’s World Migration Report 2008 . In: Truong, TD., Gasper, D. (eds) Transnational Migration and Human Security. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12757-1_9

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