The IOM as a ‘UN-Related’ Organisation, and the Potential Consequences for People Displaced by Climate Change
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The IOM as a ‘UN-Related’ Organisation, and the Potential Consequences for People Displaced by Climate Change. / Cullen, Miriam.
Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches. ed. / Simon Behrman; Avidan Kent. cambridge university press (cup), 2022. p. 338 - 356.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The IOM as a ‘UN-Related’ Organisation, and the Potential Consequences for People Displaced by Climate Change
AU - Cullen, Miriam
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The conclusion of a relationship agreement between the IOM and the UN in 2016, alongside the organisation’s rebranding to ‘UN Migration’, gave the appearance of a significant shift in a normative direction, but was it? And what are the implications for people displaced by climate change? The IOM has never been a UN agency. In fact, characteristic features of the IOM that set it apart from the UN are preserved in the 2016 Agreement, including the express retention and acknowledgement of its institutional independence. Moreover, the UN and the IOM are oriented to achieve quite different goals. Whereas the mandate of the UN is normative and protective, fundamentally concerned with upholding human rights, the constitutional mandate of the IOM is ‘to make arrangements for the organized transfer of migrants’ and to provide various migration services ‘at the request of and in agreement with the States concerned’. Accordingly, the IOM’s adoption of the UN name and logo could be misleading.
AB - The conclusion of a relationship agreement between the IOM and the UN in 2016, alongside the organisation’s rebranding to ‘UN Migration’, gave the appearance of a significant shift in a normative direction, but was it? And what are the implications for people displaced by climate change? The IOM has never been a UN agency. In fact, characteristic features of the IOM that set it apart from the UN are preserved in the 2016 Agreement, including the express retention and acknowledgement of its institutional independence. Moreover, the UN and the IOM are oriented to achieve quite different goals. Whereas the mandate of the UN is normative and protective, fundamentally concerned with upholding human rights, the constitutional mandate of the IOM is ‘to make arrangements for the organized transfer of migrants’ and to provide various migration services ‘at the request of and in agreement with the States concerned’. Accordingly, the IOM’s adoption of the UN name and logo could be misleading.
KW - Faculty of Law
KW - International Organization for Migration
KW - United Nations
KW - Cooperation Agreements
KW - Human Rights
KW - Migration
KW - Migrants
U2 - 10.1017/9781108902991.018
DO - 10.1017/9781108902991.018
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 338
EP - 356
BT - Climate Refugees
A2 - Behrman, Simon
A2 - Kent, Avidan
PB - cambridge university press (cup)
ER -
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