Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North

<p><em>The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North</em> explores how the radically violent migration management paradigm that dominates today's international migration has been assembled. Drawing on unique archive material it shows how a forum of diplomats and civil servants constructed the 'transit country' as a site in which the illegal migrant became the main actor to be vilified. Policy-makers are divided between those who oppose migration and those who support it so long as it is properly managed. Any other position is generally seen at best as utopian. </p><p></p><p>This volume advances a new way of conceptualizing policy-making in international migration at the regional and international level. Introducing the concept of 'informal plurilateralism' Oelgemöller explores how the Inter-Governmental Consultations on Asylum Migration and Refugees (IGC) created the hegemonic paradigm of 'Migration Management' thus enabling today's specific ways the 'migrant' has their juridico-political status violently denied. This raises crucial questions about what democracy is and about the way in which the value of a human being is established granted or denied. </p><p></p><p>Inviting debate in a field which is often under-theorized this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of International Relations Migration Studies and International Relations Theory. </p>