Angela Sherwood – författare

It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migration. Bringing together leading experts in international law and international relations, this collection examines the dynamics and implications of IOM's expansion in a new way. Analyzing IOM as an international organization (IO), the book illuminates the practices, obligations and accountability of this powerful but controversial actor, advancing understanding of IOM itself and broader struggles for IO accountability. The contributions explore key, yet often under-researched, IOM activities including its role in humanitarian emergencies, internal displacement, data collection, ethical labour recruitment, and migrant detention. Offering recommendations for reforms rooted in empirical evidence and careful normative analysis, this is a vital resource for all those interested in the obligations and accountability of international organizations, and in the field of migration. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migration. Bringing together leading experts in international law and international relations, this collection examines the dynamics and implications of IOM's expansion in a new way. Analyzing IOM as an international organization (IO), the book illuminates the practices, obligations and accountability of this powerful but controversial actor, advancing understanding of IOM itself and broader struggles for IO accountability. The contributions explore key, yet often under-researched, IOM activities including its role in humanitarian emergencies, internal displacement, data collection, ethical labour recruitment, and migrant detention. Offering recommendations for reforms rooted in empirical evidence and careful normative analysis, this is a vital resource for all those interested in the obligations and accountability of international organizations, and in the field of migration. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

This is the first book to theorise humanitarian power within the crimes of the powerful tradition. It offers a compelling account of the structural forces embedded in humanitarian institutions and the practices and forms of legitimation through which the violent effects of humanitarian intervention are typically produced and obscured.Focusing on post‑earthquake Haiti, a setting marked by large‑scale international involvement and deep historical and colonial inequalities, this book examines how humanitarian organisations helped shape the city’s post‑disasterlandscape. It shows how humanitarian actors, working alongside the Haitian state, contributed to the reproduction of homelessness, landlessness, and urban exclusion through their management of displacement camps, theirreliance on property‑based models of assistance, and their role in coercive programmes of camp closure.Drawing on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, this book develops the concept of humanitarian crime to illuminate the state processes, institutional arrangements, and material structures that underpin violentoutcomes in humanitarian settings. At the same time, it centres the voices of Haitian civil society and affected communities, highlighting how those subjected to state–humanitarian expulsions interpret, contest, and resist theharms inflicted through humanitarian governance. It foregrounds land occupations and informal urbanisation as key forms of resistance that expose and challenge the dispossession inscribed within the everyday workings ofhumanitarian intervention.By situating humanitarianism within wider relations of sovereignty, accumulation, and control, this book opens new pathways for studying humanitarian power and its role within contemporary global violence. Italso establishes a research agenda for understanding humanitarian crime and for examining how contemporary crises, not least increasingly frequent climate disasters, are being governed in ways that only deepen precarity and dispossession.This book is essential reading for all those engaged in work on crimes of the powerful, disaster recovery, state and corporate crime, and Caribbean Studies.

This is the first book to theorise humanitarian power within the crimes of the powerful tradition. It offers a compelling account of the structural forces embedded in humanitarian institutions and the practices and forms of legitimation through which the violent effects of humanitarian intervention are typically produced and obscured.Focusing on post earthquake Haiti, a setting marked by large scale international involvement and deep historical and colonial inequalities, this book examines how humanitarian organisations helped shape the city's post disasterlandscape. It shows how humanitarian actors, working alongside the Haitian state, contributed to the reproduction of homelessness, landlessness, and urban exclusion through their management of displacement camps, theirreliance on property based models of assistance, and their role in coercive programmes of camp closure.Drawing on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, this book develops the concept of humanitarian crime to illuminate the state processes, institutional arrangements, and material structures that underpin violentoutcomes in humanitarian settings. At the same time, it centres the voices of Haitian civil society and affected communities, highlighting how those subjected to state-humanitarian expulsions interpret, contest, and resist theharms inflicted through humanitarian governance. It foregrounds land occupations and informal urbanisation as key forms of resistance that expose and challenge the dispossession inscribed within the everyday workings ofhumanitarian intervention.By situating humanitarianism within wider relations of sovereignty, accumulation, and control, this book opens new pathways for studying humanitarian power and its role within contemporary global violence. Italso establishes a research agenda for understanding humanitarian crime and for examining how contemporary crises, not least increasingly frequent climate disasters, are being governed in ways that only deepen precarity and dispossession.This book is essential reading for all those engaged in work on crimes of the powerful, disaster recovery, state and corporate crime, and Caribbean Studies.