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International Organization for
Migration
A. Title of
agency or organization?
International Organization for Migration (IOM), formerly
Intergovernmental Committee for Migration(ICM), prior to this,
Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM), and
originally Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movements
of Migrants from Europe (PICMME).
B. Where is home base (city/state/country)?
N/A-IOM has offices and operations on every continent.
C. Date founded?
IOM was founded in 1951 at an International Migration Conference,
pioneered by Belgium and the United States-the conference was held
in Belgium’s capital city, Brussels.
D. Names of key spokespersons/officers
Mr. Brunson McKinley, Director General since October 1, 1998 and
Mrs. Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General since September 1999.
There are other key spokespersons/officers working at IOM offices
all over the world. An IOM administration structure flowchart is
available on the IOM website.
E. What/who is key constituency or audience?
Migrants and national governments are IOM’s primary constituencies.
F. What are the agency’s main activities?
IOM’s main activities are managing migration, counter-trafficking,
labour immigration, mass information and integration, migration
health services, assisted voluntary returns, technical cooperation
on migration, migration research, migrant movement
processing/assistance, emergency and post-crisis, and other special
programmes. Their activities are far-reaching!
G. Mission statement? (you may quote mission statement if available;
use quotation marks!)
“IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration
benefits migrants and society. As the leading international
organization for migration, IOM acts with its partners in the
international community to:
• Assist in meeting the growing operational challenges of migration
management,
• Advance understanding of migration issues,
• Encourage social and economic development through migration, and
• Uphold the human dignity and well-being of migrants.”
H. What are the key im/migration issues of concern to this agency?
The bulleted points in the above mission statement represent IOM’s
key im/migration concerns.
I. As best as you can determine, on what
evidence/sources/research/community does this agency base its
informational statements issued, press releases, reports, etc.?
IOM bases its informational statements, press releases, reports etc.
on migrants, governments, international and non-governmental
organizations, and United Nations bodies and operational agencies.
J. Any publications? (what types, sample titles; if online, give
links)
IOM generates an abundance of publications: books; studies and
reports; periodicals and newsletters; serial publications; and
brochures and information sheets. Many IOM publications are free and
can be downloaded from their Web site:
http://www.iom.int/iomwebsite/servlet/com.crosssystems.iom.publication.servlet.ServletPrepareSearchPublication.
K. Give at least one citation about this agency from a newspaper
article (preferably an Arizona newspaper). Use a citation index to
research this e.g., Lexis Nexis, available from the Migration Course
Web Page made by the Fletcher Library:
http://library.west.asu.edu/subjects/SOC/soc331.html Briefly
state what the article is about, and provide a quote from the
article that includes the agency’s name and gives a good idea of
this agency’s perspective on im/migration. Note: not a quote from
agency’s own web site!
Faramarzi, S. (2005, October 14). Morocco deports
Mali immigrants in nation illegally. Ventura
County Star(California), p. 16. Retrieved on
Feb. 1, 2006, from Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
database.
This article recounts violence committed by Moroccan security forces
against eleven African migrants trying to enter Morocco and a
subsequent deportation of 1,466 African migrants via three planes
from Oujda, Morocco.
“Another flight, arranged by the International Organization for
Migration, a Geneva-based intergovernmental group, left later in the
day, bringing to more than 600 the number of Malians deported
Wednesday and Thursday.”
L. Any other issues of interest about the agency?
Plenty, I’ll add in the near future.
M. Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? (You may need to
determine this from “reading around” in its position papers, press
releases, news reports, etc)
IOM is noticeably pro immigration.
N. Web site? Give URL
http://www.iom.int/ |
