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A Tale of Two Tactics

Civil Society and Competing Visions of Global Migration Governance from Below

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Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People

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Abstract

The disciplining of migration includes the way this issue is framed on the global level: The securitization of migration, the technical concept of “migration management” and the promotion of the “migration and development mantra” were all put on the agenda by nation-states and international organizations (IOs). But in recent years, migrant organizations have increasingly worked on establishing a counter-discourse that questions or negates these “truths”. Their aim is to shift the focus towards issues like human development, gender awareness, a rights-based approach to migration and the de-militarization of borders. While these goals may be widely agreed upon among many of those globally active organizations, there are significant differences regarding the strategies on how to reach them and contribute to global migration governance “from below”.

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  1. Carleton University, Canada

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    Antoine Pécoud (Professor) (Professor)

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Rother, S. (2013). A Tale of Two Tactics. In: Geiger, M., Pécoud, A. (eds) Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263070_3

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