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Megan Bradley

Bio: Megan Bradley is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Refugee & Human rights. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 35 publications receiving 546 citations. Previous affiliations of Megan Bradley include Brookings Institution & St Antony's College.

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Megan Bradley1
28 Jan 2020
TL;DR: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been a major international organization involved in an almost dizzying array of activities related to human mobility as discussed by the authors. But despite its dramatic expansion and increasing influence, IOM remains understudied, and it is often overlooked or dismissed as a veil for its involvement in other activities that serve states' interests in restricting migration.
Abstract: Since its establishment in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded from a small, regionally specific, logistically focused outfit into a major international organization involved in an almost dizzying array of activities related to human mobility. In 2016, IOM joined the UN system and has rebranded itself as the "UN migration agency." Despite its dramatic expansion and increasing influence, IOM remains understudied. This book provides an accessible, incisive introduction to IOM, focusing on its humanitarian activities and responses to forced migration – work that now makes up the majority of the organization’s budget, staff, and field presence. IOM’s humanitarian work is often overlooked or dismissed as a veil for its involvement in other activities that serve states’ interests in restricting migration. In contrast, Bradley argues that understanding IOM’s involvement in humanitarian action and work with displaced persons is pivotal to comprehending its evolution and contemporary significance. Examining tensions and controversies surrounding the agency’s activities, including in the complex cases of Haiti and Libya, the book considers how IOM’s structure, culture, and internal and external power struggles have shaped its behaviour. It demonstrates how IOM has grown by acting as an entrepreneur, cultivating autonomy and influence well beyond its limited formal mandate. The International Organization for Migration is essential reading for students and scholars of migration, humanitarianism, and international organizations.

157 citations

01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of the major issues and themes in the English literature on North-South development research partnerships, and identifies avenues for future research on the issue, including challenges, responses, and trends.
Abstract: Many professionals involved in North-South development research projects lament the lack of studies on these partnerships to support critical reflection and the refining of approaches to collaboration. This review suggests that studies and evaluations of collaborative research endeavours are more plentiful, and their findings more instructive, than is often assumed. Still, significant issues remain to be explored. This paper provides an overview of the major issues and themes in the English literature on NorthSouth development research partnerships, and identifies avenues for future research on the issue. Bradley, M. (2007) North-South Research Partnerships: Challenges, Responses and Trends—A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography. Working Paper 1, IDRC Canadian Partnerships Working Paper Series. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. Please send inquiries and comments to: cp@idrc.ca. Design and Layout: Rossana Montoya Copyright © 2007, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada This publication may be downloaded, saved, printed and reproduced for education and research purposes. When used we would request inclusion of a note recognizing the authorship and the support of the International Development Research Centre.

61 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how bilateral donor strategies affect collaborative agenda-setting processes and suggest that while strong Southern research organizations are best placed to maximise the benefits of collaboration, donors and researchers alike are well advised to recognise the limitations of this approach and use it prudently, because North-South partnerships are not necessarily the best way to advance research agendas rooted in Southern priorities.
Abstract: Co-operation between researchers in the global North and South is critical to the production of new knowledge to inform development policies. However, the agenda-setting process is a formidable obstacle in many development research partnerships. The first section of this article examines how bilateral donor strategies affect collaborative agenda-setting processes. The second section explores researchers' motivations for entering into North–South partnerships; the obstacles that Southern researchers encounter in agenda-setting processes; and the strategies that they employ to ensure that research partnerships respond to their concerns. This analysis suggests that while strong Southern research organisations are best placed to maximise the benefits of collaboration, donors and researchers alike are well advised to recognise the limitations of this approach and use it prudently, because North–South partnerships are not necessarily the best way to advance research agendas rooted in Southern priorities.

58 citations

Book
13 Nov 2014
TL;DR: The tools of repair: redress for returning refugees Part II. Beyond Repair? Grappling with Hard Cases: 8. Conclusion as mentioned in this paper. And the Palestinian refugees Conclusion. Foundations of State Responsibility and Just Return: 1. Forced migration and the responsibilities of states: moral and legal perspectives.
Abstract: Introduction Part I. Foundations of State Responsibility and Just Return: 1. Forced migration and the responsibilities of states: moral and legal perspectives 2. The conditions of just return: a minimum account 3. The tools of repair: redress for returning refugees Part II. Historical Experiences of Return and Redress: 4. Return and redress in Guatemala 5. Return and redress in Bosnia and Herzegovina 6. Return and redress in Mozambique 7. Analysis of case studies Part III. Beyond Repair? Grappling with Hard Cases: 8. Just return and the Palestinian refugees Conclusion.

53 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that the notion of refugees as stateless scum of the earth is anachronistic and no longer clearly reflects the challenges faced by the majority of the world's refugees.
Abstract: Hannah Arendt's characterisation of the refugee as rightless and stateless has become a touchstone for scholars grappling with the nature of forced migration and exile. While aspects of Arendt's depiction continue to resonate, the notion of refugees as stateless, rightless ‘scum of the earth’ is now in many cases anachronistic, and no longer clearly reflects the challenges now faced by the majority of the world's refugees. This is attributable to structural changes in the refugee regime, particularly the increased focus on repatriation and the reconstitution of the relationship between refugees and their states of origin, a possibility largely unforeseen by Arendt. Drawing on the example of the Guatemalan repatriation movement, this article contends that indiscriminately portraying refugees as stateless represents a potential disservice to the displaced, as it may inadvertently undermine refugees' claims against their states of origin for the redress of their rights as citizens. There is a need to expand theorising on refugees from a narrow focus on the refugee as rightless and stateless to a broader conception of the refugee as a bearer of claims for the renegotiation of her relationship with her state.

49 citations


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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: IOM's migration governance framework was developed and a migration data analysis unit was established with the aim to foster better analysis, use and presentation of IOM data, and the role of the IOM with regards to the rights of migrants and protecting these should be further looked at in the near future as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: www.migrantscontribute.com In early September, IOM Director General William Lacy Swing and Deputy Director General Laura Thompson brought together all Chiefs of Missions around the world for the Global Chief of Mission Meeting. During three days of presentations, meetings and exchange including a reception with keynote speaker Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations the Director General laid out the achievements already made and declared his intention to pursue three additional strategic objectives for the future: continuity, coherence and change. These guideposts are reflected in many of our new policy and management initiatives. Among others, a migration governance framework will be developed, which sets out clear objectives for migration governance; a migration data analysis unit will be established with the aim to foster better analysis, use and presentation of IOM data; and the role of IOM with regards to the rights of migrants and protecting these should be further looked at in the near future. In this context, it is important to mention that a widespread external perception exists that IOM is not mandated or able to contribute to protection through its work. To review the IOM policy on protection and update the last institutional document from 2007 towards meeting international standards and circumstances, we have established a Protection Policy Working Group. We think that protecting and assisting migrants is the most fundamental responsibility entrusted to IOM, especially with regards to the humanitarian work IOM implements worldwide. To highlight and strengthen IOM ́s humanitarian role, including through policy developments and implementing procedures, is therefore a high priority. In the Austrian context, we are looking forward to putting into practice as many of the new initiatives as possible and to properly updating you on new developments on our new website to be released in October.

241 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that there is a mobility bias in migration research: by focusing on the "drivers" of migration, the forces that lead to the initiation and perpetuation of migration flows, m...
Abstract: This article suggests that there is a mobility bias in migration research: by focusing on the “drivers” of migration — the forces that lead to the initiation and perpetuation of migration flows — m...

232 citations

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01 Jan 2013-Pouvoirs

203 citations

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Olga Jurasz1
TL;DR: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (FMS) as discussed by the authors has become a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programs across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences.
Abstract: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field encompasses both rigorous academic research which may or may not ultimately inform policy and practice, as well as action-research focused on advocating in favour of refugees' needs and rights. This authoritative Handbook critically evaluates the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and analyses the key contemporary and future challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world.

178 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that the turn from Refugee Studies to Forced Migration Studies must be viewed against the backdrop of the history and relationship of colonialism and humanitarianism, as a certain commonality binds the past and present eras.
Abstract: This essay seeks to understand and explain the birth of Forced Migration Studies. It argues that the turn from Refugee Studies to Forced Migration Studies must be viewed against the backdrop of the history and relationship of colonialism and humanitarianism, as a certain commonality binds the past and present eras. The move to Forced Migration Studies accompanies the inauguration of a phase of political humanitarianism with a distinct accent, albeit encapsulated in new forms and issues, on ‘civilizing’ the Other. In making this contention the paper distances itself from both the defenders and critics of the turn to Forced Migration Studies. It inter alia contends that Refugee Studies, like Forced Migration Studies, has served the geopolitics of hegemonic states. But since all knowledge is dual use, both have also had humanitarian effects. But a greater degree of disciplinary reflexivity would go a long way to ensure that the genuinely humanitarian strand in Forced Migration Studies prevails.

170 citations