Lab member Leonie Jegen, an early career research from the University of Amsterdam, recently published “The role of the International Organization for Migration in African–European Union migration”, chapter 19 in the volume in Worlds Apart? Perspectives on Africa–EU Migration. It is available from the Routeledge website here: https://www.routledge.com/Worlds-Apart-Perspectives-on-Africa-EU-Migration/Akinola-Bjarnesen/p/book/9781032860961
Abstract
This chapter explores the role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the African context through a double approach, which is necessary if one is to understand the rationales behind the organisation’s work. It provides a meta perspective on firstly, which donor governments fund the biggest chunk of the IOM’s earmarked projects in Africa. It then examines what activities are being sponsored by the most important donors. These meta-level findings are complemented by two case studies that zoom in and examine the IOM’s role in two specific policy fields, namely, return and state capacity-building. This more micro-level perspective provides further insight into the organisation’s entanglement with receiving governments and the power dynamics of donor governments.