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The International Organization for MigrationBetween Migration and Development: The IOM’s Development Fund

The International Organization for Migration: Between Migration and Development: The IOM’s... [The international community increasingly considers it important to incorporate the intersection between migration and development in development strategies. This increase in attention has developed in parallel to the shift in development theory from a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to community-based development. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a prominent promoter of the migration-development nexus. Seeking to harness the benefits of migration, its stated vision of development emphasises poverty reduction, community-based approaches and sustainable development. The IOM Development Fund has invested significantly in research, publications and projects under the label ‘migration and development’. These projects aim to incorporate the contributions of migrants in the development of their country of origin through economic and other types of international remittances. The approaches used by the IOM raise concerns about moving towards development strategies that shift the responsibility for development away from governments and on to individuals. This chapter analyses the IOM’s contributions to ‘development theory’ and four of their ‘migration and development’ projects to highlight the dangers of this development theory in practice.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The International Organization for MigrationBetween Migration and Development: The IOM’s Development Fund

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Geiger, Martin; Pécoud, Antoine
Newman-Grigg, Erin
The International Organization for Migration — Feb 19, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-32975-4
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99 –122
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10.1007/978-3-030-32976-1_5
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Abstract

[The international community increasingly considers it important to incorporate the intersection between migration and development in development strategies. This increase in attention has developed in parallel to the shift in development theory from a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to community-based development. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a prominent promoter of the migration-development nexus. Seeking to harness the benefits of migration, its stated vision of development emphasises poverty reduction, community-based approaches and sustainable development. The IOM Development Fund has invested significantly in research, publications and projects under the label ‘migration and development’. These projects aim to incorporate the contributions of migrants in the development of their country of origin through economic and other types of international remittances. The approaches used by the IOM raise concerns about moving towards development strategies that shift the responsibility for development away from governments and on to individuals. This chapter analyses the IOM’s contributions to ‘development theory’ and four of their ‘migration and development’ projects to highlight the dangers of this development theory in practice.]

Published: Feb 19, 2020

Keywords: Migration and development; International remittances; IOM; Community-based development

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