Shoshana Fine – författare

This book analyses the crucial dilemmas faced by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and their implications, not only for immigration policy, but also for the global agenda in the field of development, human rights, security or climate change. Once small and relatively marginal, the IOM joined the United Nations in 2016 and now exerts a strong influence on global migration governance. In line with the UN mandate, it seeks to promote a multilateral approach to migration and to uphold the human rights of migrants and their role in global socio-economic prosperity. Yet, as an intergovernmental institution, it also aligns on the priorities of governments in terms of border control and security.This book is essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners in International Relations, Migration Studies, and Global Governance, as well as policymakers and NGO professionals seeking to understand the complexities of contemporary migration management. The work spans multiple disciplines including political science, international law, development studies, and human rights, examining how migration intersects with broader global challenges such as climate change, security concerns, and socio-economic development.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

This book explores how legality—often hailed as the cornerstone of democracies, late capitalism, and the liberal international order—is mobilized within International Relations. Law is frequently viewed as a resource to pacify an anarchical international environment, a means to end war, reduce migrant deaths, combat ‘bad’ governance, or prevent global warming. In this edited volume, we invert the assumed relationship between legality and injustices by asking to what extent law enables violence: from migrant deaths to lives lost in the name of “freeing” populations under a so‑called “global” rule of law. While critical scholars have highlighted how law can produce violence, they have typically focused on discriminatory practices or the instrumentalization of law, without fully examining how these practices are maintained through appeals to law’s formal structures and the legitimacy they confer. This edited volume brings together empirical and theoretical contributions that interrogate how legality is used to justify and enable violence and domination in international politics.

In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "transit," "destination," "European," "Muslim" and "safe."