Megan Bradley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 215450 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Megan Bradley |
| PRENOMES | Megan |
| SOBRENOME | Bradley |
| ASSINATURA | BRADLEY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8309-5866 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
We need to talk about miscarriage
IDP perspectives on IDP participation
Participation is a humanitarian mantra and a mainstay in development discourse. Some important steps have recently been taken to strengthen meaningful and effective refugee participation, including through refugee-led organizations. Although more than half of those displaced by conflict and violence worldwide are uprooted within their own countries, progress in supporting participation opportunities for internally displaced persons (IDPs) has bee…
We're an Organization that Does Stuff
This article advances accounts of expertise as a source of power in migration governance by examining how the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has cultivated authority as a logistical expert. Analyses of expert authority in global governance have traditionally focused on the production and control of information, particularly research and data. In contrast, this study demonstrates that logistical expertise was pivotal to the organis…
"Being "resettlement-minded
Through the Localization Looking Glass
There has been increased scholarly and policy attention to “localized” responses to displacement, in the hope that further empowering local actors may unlock new means of protecting refugees’ rights and addressing their needs. However, these efforts have often oversimplified power relations within localization processes, bringing some players into focus while occluding others, and devoting insufficient attention to how localization processes and …
IOM Unbound?
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migration. Bringing together leading experts in international law and international relations, this collection examines the dynamics and implications of IOM's expansion in a new way. Analyzing IOM as an international organization (IO), the book illuminates the practices, obligations and accountability of …
IOM Unbound
Realising the Right of Return
Refugee repatriation rests on a fundamental norm: the right of return. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) styles itself as the chief defender of international norms on refugees, educating refugees about their rights and socialising states to respect the cardinal rules of the refugee regime. However, UNHCR initially devoted little attention to the right of return. When UNHCR began to engage more actively with repatriation …
Colonial continuities and colonial unknowing in international migration management
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) exerts increasing power in global migration governance, yet research on IOM’s early history is scarce. Explanations of IOM’s founding and early migration management efforts are often reduced to bipolar, Cold War politics, with the US creating the organisation outside the UN to sidestep Soviet interference. Such simplistic accounts fail to grapple with the ways in which its creation and early acti…
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM
The International Organization Migration (IOM) has expanded dramatically, with many scholars arguing that IOM has thrived because of its place on the margins of the UN, where it could execute restrictive migration management programs on behalf of states, unencumbered by human rights norms and protection obligations. However, in recent years, IOM has adopted human rights discourse and expressed commitment to human rights and humanitarian standards…
Whither the Refugees? International Organisations and “Solutions” to Displacement, 1921–1960
Achieving “durable solutions” is a central goal of the contemporary refugee regime. Durable solutions are often equated with three routes to resolving displacement—voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement—and the concept is closely tied to ideas about permanency, protection, and the rectification of refugees’ legal limbo. Despite its contemporary prominence, the genealogy of the concept of durable solutions has not been fully con…
When the ground opened”
So-called “natural” disasters are often characterized by major human rights abuses, yet responsibility and accountability for such violations have attracted relatively limited attention in research and practice. Instead, these events and survivors’ suffering are often dismissed as “acts of God” or tragic misfortunes. Through analysis of an under-examined disaster—the 2017 mudslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone—this article probes survivors’ perspecti…
Joining the UN Family
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) became a related organization in the United Nations system in 2016, and has rebranded itself as the “UN Migration Agency.” This article examines the drivers and significance of IOM’s new relationship with the UN. It traces the evolution of the IOM-UN relationship, and the processes that led to IOM becoming a related organization. While some contend that IOM is still not really part of the UN syst…
The International Organization for Migration
Since its establishment in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded from a small, regionally specific, logistically focused outfit into a major international organization involved in an almost dizzying array of activities related to human mobility. In 2016, IOM joined the UN system and has rebranded itself as the "UN migration agency." Despite its dramatic expansion and increasing influence, IOM remains understudied. …
Transitions at the Journal of Refugee Studies
Unresolved and Unresolvable? Tensions in the Refugee Regime
Worldwide, growing numbers of refugees are pushed from their homes. At the same time, fewer and fewer are able to access so-called “durable solutions” to their displacement. This has prompted a flurry of efforts to repair the foundering refugee regime. Many such efforts attempt, implicitly or explicitly, to resolve tensions between legal principles, moral duties, and national interests surrounding refugees. As part of a roundtable on “Balancing L…
Durable Solutions and the Right of Return for IDPs
This article traces the evolution of norms on durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) since the introduction of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement in 1998, focusing in particular on the right of return. The Guiding Principles reflect and have helped consolidate the view that the right of return pertains not only to those crossing international borders, such as refugees, but also to IDPs, and that respect for this ri…
More than Misfortune
Natural disasters are often characterized by gross human rights violations, yet these injustices are rarely acknowledged and addressed through transitional justice processes. Do systematic abuses in disaster contexts fall within the scope of transitional justice? In exploring this question, this article draws attention to a facet of injustice that has been ignored, arbitrarily discounted or inadvertently effaced. I suggest that misperceptions abo…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) remains understudied, despite its dramatic growth in recent decades, particularly in the humanitarian sphere. In this article I examine key factors driving IOM’s expansion, and implications for the forced migration regime. Despite lacking a formal protection mandate, IOM has thrived by acting as an entrepreneur, capitalizing on its malleability and reputation for efficiency, and carving out disti…
Researching the Resolution of Post-Disaster Displacement
Researching the resolution of post-disaster displacement raises a range of under-examined challenges. This article contributes to the literature on research methods and forced migration by analysing experiences conducting two policy research projects that employed a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the pursuit of ‘durable solutions’ to post-disaster displacement in Haiti and the Philippines. Many scholars are highly crit…
Forced Migration, Reconciliation, and Justice
At the start of 2014, more people were displaced globally by conflict and human rights violations than at any time since the Second World War. Although many of those displaced, from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Colombia, Kenya, and Sudan, have survived grave human rights abuses that demand redress, the links between forced migration, justice, and reconciliation have historically received little attention. This collection addresses the roles of …
Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean
This chapter examines the displacement of refugees, exiles, and internally displaced persons in Central America and the Caribbean due to forced migration. It first discusses the causes and consequences of displacement before turning to cooperation as a response to forced migration in the two regions, highlighting the work of the International Conference on Central American Refugees (CIREFCA). It then explores the role of legal frameworks, regiona…
Rethinking refugeehood
Hannah Arendt's characterisation of the refugee as rightless and stateless has become a touchstone for scholars grappling with the nature of forced migration and exile. While aspects of Arendt's depiction continue to resonate, the notion of refugees as stateless, rightless ‘scum of the earth’ is now in many cases anachronistic, and no longer clearly reflects the challenges now faced by the majority of the world's refugees. This is attributable to…
Refugee Repatriation
Migrants in a Feverland’
This paper considers whether states have a duty to accept those who cross borders to escape environmental disasters associated with climate change. It then examines how such a responsibility might be distributed, focusing on the predicament of the citizens of small island states expected to be inundated by rising sea levels. In assessing states' responsibility to admit these individuals, I draw on Walzer's theory of mutual aid, demonstrating that…
Colonial continuities and colonial unknowing in international migration management
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) exerts increasing power in global migration governance, yet research on IOM’s early history is scarce. Explanations of IOM’s founding and early migration management efforts are often reduced to bipolar, Cold War politics, with the US creating the organisation outside the UN to sidestep Soviet interference. Such simplistic accounts fail to grapple with the ways in which its creation and early acti…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) remains understudied, despite its dramatic growth in recent decades, particularly in the humanitarian sphere. In this article I examine key factors driving IOM’s expansion, and implications for the forced migration regime. Despite lacking a formal protection mandate, IOM has thrived by acting as an entrepreneur, capitalizing on its malleability and reputation for efficiency, and carving out disti…
Rethinking refugeehood
Hannah Arendt's characterisation of the refugee as rightless and stateless has become a touchstone for scholars grappling with the nature of forced migration and exile. While aspects of Arendt's depiction continue to resonate, the notion of refugees as stateless, rightless ‘scum of the earth’ is now in many cases anachronistic, and no longer clearly reflects the challenges now faced by the majority of the world's refugees. This is attributable to…
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM
The International Organization Migration (IOM) has expanded dramatically, with many scholars arguing that IOM has thrived because of its place on the margins of the UN, where it could execute restrictive migration management programs on behalf of states, unencumbered by human rights norms and protection obligations. However, in recent years, IOM has adopted human rights discourse and expressed commitment to human rights and humanitarian standards…
On the agenda
Co-operation between researchers in the global North and South is critical to the production of new knowledge to inform development policies. However, the agenda-setting process is a formidable obstacle in many development research partnerships. The first section of this article examines how bilateral donor strategies affect collaborative agenda-setting processes. The second section explores researchers' motivations for entering into North–South …
Realising the Right of Return
Refugee repatriation rests on a fundamental norm: the right of return. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) styles itself as the chief defender of international norms on refugees, educating refugees about their rights and socialising states to respect the cardinal rules of the refugee regime. However, UNHCR initially devoted little attention to the right of return. When UNHCR began to engage more actively with repatriation …
Joining the UN Family
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) became a related organization in the United Nations system in 2016, and has rebranded itself as the “UN Migration Agency.” This article examines the drivers and significance of IOM’s new relationship with the UN. It traces the evolution of the IOM-UN relationship, and the processes that led to IOM becoming a related organization. While some contend that IOM is still not really part of the UN syst…
We're an Organization that Does Stuff
This article advances accounts of expertise as a source of power in migration governance by examining how the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has cultivated authority as a logistical expert. Analyses of expert authority in global governance have traditionally focused on the production and control of information, particularly research and data. In contrast, this study demonstrates that logistical expertise was pivotal to the organis…
"Being "resettlement-minded
Whither the Refugees? International Organisations and “Solutions” to Displacement, 1921–1960
Achieving “durable solutions” is a central goal of the contemporary refugee regime. Durable solutions are often equated with three routes to resolving displacement—voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement—and the concept is closely tied to ideas about permanency, protection, and the rectification of refugees’ legal limbo. Despite its contemporary prominence, the genealogy of the concept of durable solutions has not been fully con…
Return in Dignity
The origins, evolution, and content of the principle of a dignified return are examined, as are the implications of using dignity as a guiding principle governing the return of refugees. The emergence of provisions on safe and dignified return are tracked and analyzed in international agreements, UN documents, and speeches by UN High Commissioners for Refugees since 1978. Key theoretical perspectives are examined, and the insights of these theori…
Through the Localization Looking Glass
There has been increased scholarly and policy attention to “localized” responses to displacement, in the hope that further empowering local actors may unlock new means of protecting refugees’ rights and addressing their needs. However, these efforts have often oversimplified power relations within localization processes, bringing some players into focus while occluding others, and devoting insufficient attention to how localization processes and …
Unresolved and Unresolvable? Tensions in the Refugee Regime
Worldwide, growing numbers of refugees are pushed from their homes. At the same time, fewer and fewer are able to access so-called “durable solutions” to their displacement. This has prompted a flurry of efforts to repair the foundering refugee regime. Many such efforts attempt, implicitly or explicitly, to resolve tensions between legal principles, moral duties, and national interests surrounding refugees. As part of a roundtable on “Balancing L…
More than Misfortune
Natural disasters are often characterized by gross human rights violations, yet these injustices are rarely acknowledged and addressed through transitional justice processes. Do systematic abuses in disaster contexts fall within the scope of transitional justice? In exploring this question, this article draws attention to a facet of injustice that has been ignored, arbitrarily discounted or inadvertently effaced. I suggest that misperceptions abo…
Unlocking Protracted Displacement
During the 1980s and early 1990s, more than three million Central Americans were uprooted by interlinked civil wars and rampant human rights violations. This article considers “top-down” and “bottom-up” contributions to resolving this protracted displacement situation, which is often heralded as a success story. At the regional and international levels, the pursuit of solutions was characterised by unprecedented levels of cooperation; innovative …
Migrants in a Feverland’
This paper considers whether states have a duty to accept those who cross borders to escape environmental disasters associated with climate change. It then examines how such a responsibility might be distributed, focusing on the predicament of the citizens of small island states expected to be inundated by rising sea levels. In assessing states' responsibility to admit these individuals, I draw on Walzer's theory of mutual aid, demonstrating that…
Palestinian Refugee Repatriation
It is now 58 years since the displacement of the Palestinians in the ‘Nakba’ of 1948, and there has scarcely been a bleaker time to undertake research on the resolution of the Palestinian refugee situation. This book on global perspectives on Palestinian refugee repatriation is a significant and thought-provoking contribution to scholarly and policy debates on repatriation in general, and the return of the Palestinian refugees in particular. It e…
The Future for Palestinian Refugees
Michael Dumper's latest comparative study is a successful riposte to the widespread view that the Palestinian refugee crisis is a unique case impervious to the application of principles and practices developed in the international refugee regime over the course of the past 50 years. Building on his edited collection Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2006), in The Future for Palestinian Refugees, Dumper broadens his…
On the agenda
Co-operation between researchers in the global North and South is critical to the production of new knowledge to inform development policies. However, the agenda-setting process is a formidable obstacle in many development research partnerships. The first section of this article examines how bilateral donor strategies affect collaborative agenda-setting processes. The second section explores researchers' motivations for entering into North–South …
Return in Dignity
The origins, evolution, and content of the principle of a dignified return are examined, as are the implications of using dignity as a guiding principle governing the return of refugees. The emergence of provisions on safe and dignified return are tracked and analyzed in international agreements, UN documents, and speeches by UN High Commissioners for Refugees since 1978. Key theoretical perspectives are examined, and the insights of these theori…
Unlocking Protracted Displacement
During the 1980s and early 1990s, more than three million Central Americans were uprooted by interlinked civil wars and rampant human rights violations. This article considers “top-down” and “bottom-up” contributions to resolving this protracted displacement situation, which is often heralded as a success story. At the regional and international levels, the pursuit of solutions was characterised by unprecedented levels of cooperation; innovative …
Migrants in a Feverland’
This paper considers whether states have a duty to accept those who cross borders to escape environmental disasters associated with climate change. It then examines how such a responsibility might be distributed, focusing on the predicament of the citizens of small island states expected to be inundated by rising sea levels. In assessing states' responsibility to admit these individuals, I draw on Walzer's theory of mutual aid, demonstrating that…
Refugee Repatriation
Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean
This chapter examines the displacement of refugees, exiles, and internally displaced persons in Central America and the Caribbean due to forced migration. It first discusses the causes and consequences of displacement before turning to cooperation as a response to forced migration in the two regions, highlighting the work of the International Conference on Central American Refugees (CIREFCA). It then explores the role of legal frameworks, regiona…
Rethinking refugeehood
Hannah Arendt's characterisation of the refugee as rightless and stateless has become a touchstone for scholars grappling with the nature of forced migration and exile. While aspects of Arendt's depiction continue to resonate, the notion of refugees as stateless, rightless ‘scum of the earth’ is now in many cases anachronistic, and no longer clearly reflects the challenges now faced by the majority of the world's refugees. This is attributable to…
Forced Migration, Reconciliation, and Justice
At the start of 2014, more people were displaced globally by conflict and human rights violations than at any time since the Second World War. Although many of those displaced, from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Colombia, Kenya, and Sudan, have survived grave human rights abuses that demand redress, the links between forced migration, justice, and reconciliation have historically received little attention. This collection addresses the roles of …
Researching the Resolution of Post-Disaster Displacement
Researching the resolution of post-disaster displacement raises a range of under-examined challenges. This article contributes to the literature on research methods and forced migration by analysing experiences conducting two policy research projects that employed a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the pursuit of ‘durable solutions’ to post-disaster displacement in Haiti and the Philippines. Many scholars are highly crit…
More than Misfortune
Natural disasters are often characterized by gross human rights violations, yet these injustices are rarely acknowledged and addressed through transitional justice processes. Do systematic abuses in disaster contexts fall within the scope of transitional justice? In exploring this question, this article draws attention to a facet of injustice that has been ignored, arbitrarily discounted or inadvertently effaced. I suggest that misperceptions abo…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) remains understudied, despite its dramatic growth in recent decades, particularly in the humanitarian sphere. In this article I examine key factors driving IOM’s expansion, and implications for the forced migration regime. Despite lacking a formal protection mandate, IOM has thrived by acting as an entrepreneur, capitalizing on its malleability and reputation for efficiency, and carving out disti…
Durable Solutions and the Right of Return for IDPs
This article traces the evolution of norms on durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) since the introduction of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement in 1998, focusing in particular on the right of return. The Guiding Principles reflect and have helped consolidate the view that the right of return pertains not only to those crossing international borders, such as refugees, but also to IDPs, and that respect for this ri…
Unresolved and Unresolvable? Tensions in the Refugee Regime
Worldwide, growing numbers of refugees are pushed from their homes. At the same time, fewer and fewer are able to access so-called “durable solutions” to their displacement. This has prompted a flurry of efforts to repair the foundering refugee regime. Many such efforts attempt, implicitly or explicitly, to resolve tensions between legal principles, moral duties, and national interests surrounding refugees. As part of a roundtable on “Balancing L…
The International Organization for Migration
Since its establishment in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded from a small, regionally specific, logistically focused outfit into a major international organization involved in an almost dizzying array of activities related to human mobility. In 2016, IOM joined the UN system and has rebranded itself as the "UN migration agency." Despite its dramatic expansion and increasing influence, IOM remains understudied. …
Transitions at the Journal of Refugee Studies
When the ground opened”
So-called “natural” disasters are often characterized by major human rights abuses, yet responsibility and accountability for such violations have attracted relatively limited attention in research and practice. Instead, these events and survivors’ suffering are often dismissed as “acts of God” or tragic misfortunes. Through analysis of an under-examined disaster—the 2017 mudslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone—this article probes survivors’ perspecti…
Joining the UN Family
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) became a related organization in the United Nations system in 2016, and has rebranded itself as the “UN Migration Agency.” This article examines the drivers and significance of IOM’s new relationship with the UN. It traces the evolution of the IOM-UN relationship, and the processes that led to IOM becoming a related organization. While some contend that IOM is still not really part of the UN syst…
Whither the Refugees? International Organisations and “Solutions” to Displacement, 1921–1960
Achieving “durable solutions” is a central goal of the contemporary refugee regime. Durable solutions are often equated with three routes to resolving displacement—voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement—and the concept is closely tied to ideas about permanency, protection, and the rectification of refugees’ legal limbo. Despite its contemporary prominence, the genealogy of the concept of durable solutions has not been fully con…
IOM Unbound?
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migration. Bringing together leading experts in international law and international relations, this collection examines the dynamics and implications of IOM's expansion in a new way. Analyzing IOM as an international organization (IO), the book illuminates the practices, obligations and accountability of …
IOM Unbound
Realising the Right of Return
Refugee repatriation rests on a fundamental norm: the right of return. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) styles itself as the chief defender of international norms on refugees, educating refugees about their rights and socialising states to respect the cardinal rules of the refugee regime. However, UNHCR initially devoted little attention to the right of return. When UNHCR began to engage more actively with repatriation …
Colonial continuities and colonial unknowing in international migration management
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) exerts increasing power in global migration governance, yet research on IOM’s early history is scarce. Explanations of IOM’s founding and early migration management efforts are often reduced to bipolar, Cold War politics, with the US creating the organisation outside the UN to sidestep Soviet interference. Such simplistic accounts fail to grapple with the ways in which its creation and early acti…
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM
The International Organization Migration (IOM) has expanded dramatically, with many scholars arguing that IOM has thrived because of its place on the margins of the UN, where it could execute restrictive migration management programs on behalf of states, unencumbered by human rights norms and protection obligations. However, in recent years, IOM has adopted human rights discourse and expressed commitment to human rights and humanitarian standards…
Political science (26 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (17 obras) · Refugee (17 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Repatriation (8 obras) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras)