Ideal partnership or marriage of convenience? Canada's ambivalent relationship with the International Organization for Migration

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ID3617641
AuthorsMartin Geiger (0000-0003-4469-9645, Carleton University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume44
Issue10
Pages1639-1655
Publication date2018-07-27
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2017.1354033
OpenAlexW2753515993
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited20

This paper explores the relationship between Canada, one of the world’s leading immigration countries and a country that often serves as an international ‘poster child’ for well managed migration, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental organisation that provides migration-related services for Canada and many other countries. Despite growing awareness about the role of the IOM in migration politics, a research gap remains regarding how states cogitate and evaluate their partnership with the IOM. This article draws on publicly available government evaluations, conducted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, which speak to the strongly inter-dependent, but also highly ambivalent reality of collaboration between Canada and the IOM. In exploring and discussing the nature of this relationship, the article also speaks to the particularities of ‘migration management’ and the larger transformations in global migration governance reflected in Canada’s partnership with the IOM

Ambivalence · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnology · Gender equality · General partnership · Irregular migration · Political science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Canadian Policy and Governance · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology

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