Mobility, Development, Protection, EU-Integration! The IOM’s National Migration Strategy for Albania

  • Martin Geiger
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Part of the Migration, Minorities and Citizenship book series (MMC)

Abstract

While anxiety over the continuation of unwanted ‘illegal’ migration movements from and through Albania persists, the EU Commission and a multitude of other international actors (including intergovernmental organizations such as the International Organization for Migration [IOM]) try to strengthen local state institutions to regulate migration in an effective manner. Over the last few years Albania has become the ‘testing ground’ for numerous activities targeting migration. Since the end of 2004 the country has been implementing a ‘National Strategy’ specifically designed for managing migration in a more holistic way. The following chapter discusses this strategy against the background of the debate on new discourses, practices and actors in international migration management. As the chapter aims to illustrate, the Albanian migration strategy stands as a paradigmatic case for a new trend in migration policy: the denationalization of migration governance by a far-reaching process of internationalization and simultaneously EU-ropeanization in the field of migration politics or migration management, a process that is driven largely by actors ‘beyond’ the state, the once ‘traditional’ actor of regulation.

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Action Plan Asylum Seeker Migration Policy Migration Strategy Intergovernmental Organization 
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