Migration Management & International Organizations: A history of the establishment of the International Organization for Migration (MIMIO) (ICPSR doi:10.17903/FK2/FLAE1G)

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Migration Management & International Organizations: A history of the establishment of the International Organization for Migration (MIMIO)

doi:10.17903/FK2/FLAE1G

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Lina Venturas, 2024, "Migration Management & International Organizations: A history of the establishment of the International Organization for Migration (MIMIO)", https://doi.org/10.17903/FK2/FLAE1G, Κατάλογος Δεδομένων SoDaNet

https://doi.org/10.17903/FK2/FLAE1G

Migration Management & International Organizations: A history of the establishment of the International Organization for Migration (MIMIO)

doi:10.17903/FK2/FLAE1G

Lina Venturas (University of the Peloponnese)

Lina Venturas

2686 Αριστεία I - 4824/23/04/2012

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2024-11-14

https://doi.org/10.17903/FK2/FLAE1G

EMIGRATION, INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, IMMIGRATION POLICY

Migration, Equality, inequality and social exclusion

The MIMIO project traces the emergence of the idea of an international regulation of migration in the interwar years and provides an in-depth investigation of the immediate post-World War II era in order to document the re-emergence of the debates and subsequent policies that led to the creation of the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe (PICCME) in 1951. It follows the political actors that attempted to turn migration into a more orderly, predictable and manageable process and assesses their motivation for doing so. It investigates the role played by the actors and the agencies involved in the creation and functioning of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM), the strategies, practices and discourses they relied on. It seeks to explain the process of institutionalization and the generation of a set of interrelationships and practices, as well as to understand how the ICEM became a politically legitimate and accepted body. The project also documents and assesses the initial years of the ICEM during which the organization galvanized its constitution, its strategies and policies, and arranged for the resettlement of almost one million Europeans in countries overseas. In doing so, the project explores the following: i. Regulating mobility: The range of practices the ICEM inaugurated and developed; its projects, endeavors and failures; its collaboration with government agencies and NGOs; its relations to local actors and other foreign-based institutions; its funding and its growth in terms of budget and scope of activities, its staff profile. The research team also prepared an overview of all the migratory movements from Europe overseas organized by the ICEM from 1952 to 1960. ii. Organizational strategies, practices, and asymmetries of power: In addition to the examination of the organization's formal attributes, the project also investigates: the actual decision-making processes and the discrepancies between constitutional designs and organizational practices; the overall patterns of influence that shaped organizational outcomes; the sources of influence, including the power and prestige of individual states; the formation of bureaucratic politics, organizational leadership positions and the underlying organizational culture. iii. Knowledge, meaning and power: The project documents and analyses the discursive and cognitive framework that assigned meaning to the regulation of migration. It examines the generation of data by the ICEM on current and future labor migration and the organization's role in shaping governmental decisions through the provision of knowledge, analyses and services. It seeks to elucidate whether the ICEM played an active role in the international politics of agenda formation. iv. The implementation of local missions: Two in depth case studies examine the implementation of local ICEM missions in one sending and one receiving country (Greece and Australia respectively) and the migration movements organized by the ICEM from and to them. These case studies seek to identify how international practices and knowledge were re-appropriated nationally; how these missions were implemented within a national context; and which individual and collective actors coordinated this process.

2013-01-01-2013-12-31

Netherlands

Media unit: Text

Insitutions/οrganizations recording migration flows.

Archives

Other

Other

Other

During 2013, members of the project's research team located, collected and assessed a variety of archival and documentary repositories containing material relevant to the ICEM's establishment, function and activities up to 1960. These researchers have examined documents and materials produced by the PICMME-ICEM, including statistical data, agreements between member-states, internal and external correspondence, reports and proceedings, newsletters, journals and publications, the minutes of meetings, as well as material produced by other international organizations, such as the ILO and the UNHCR, that collaborated with the ICEM. More specifically research in person has been conducted at: 1. the archives of the IOM's Headquarters in Geneva. 2. the archives of the IOM's local mission in Athens. 3. the US National Archives in Washington D.C. and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Archive in Poughkeepsie N.Y. 4. the National Archives of Australia in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. 5. the Archive of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens. 6. the archives of the ILO and the UNHCR in Geneva. The relevant archival material from Argentina, Brazil and Spain was itemized by Maria Damilakou, who has worked extensively on migration patterns in Latin American countries and particularly, Argentina. The description of the material researched in the archives of Germany, Canada and New Zealand is based on the online catalogues of the archives and is therefore, shorter. It should be noted that online research has also been conducted in the national archives of Austria, Italy, Belgium, France, Israel, Luxembourg and the Netherlands without significant results. Apart from the textual archival material, the archives of the IOM in Geneva contain photographs and films that document the ICEM's activities. However, these collections have not been catalogued and remain inaccessible to researchers.