Title:	Depoliticising Migration: Global Governance and International Migration Narratives
Authors:	Antoine Pécoud Martin Geiger Parvati Raghuram
Keywords:	Global Governance
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	olitics and profits nourish the ever-thickening haze of infrastructures and discourses of migration management. Depoliticizing Migration showcases a more benign-seeming series of migration-related narratives that do not at first glance seem to capitalise on the hysteria, fear, and politics driving migration industries and policies. Building on several years of experience as a researcher at UNESCO, Antoine Pécoud goes to the heart of international organisations that produce migration narratives in order to understand why they have turned recently to the treatment of migration as another development issue – a problem in need of a solution. Noting that ‘IOs are institutions that talk and publish massively’, Pécoud analyses 3000 pages, a cottage industry, of reports and statistics crafted to bring order to the chaotic field of human mobility. In exploring how international organisations design narratives to order the world, Pécoud identifies a proliferating series of definitions, typologies, organising principles, and budget lines that characterise contemporary forms of migration management. The presentation of these data inevitably calls for the collection of more data. Pécoud proposes a new term to capture the bread and butter technocratic discourses of these proliferating industries and experts: International Migration Narratives (IMNs). By IMNs, he refers to the shared narratives that have emerged in post–Cold War management discourses created to orient a policy-minded audience to migration as a problem that can be catalogued and then solved.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53311
ISBN:	978-1-349-49589-4
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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