Introduction 1 A Praxeological Approach to the Politics of International Migration Management 2 The IOM in the Trans-Mediterranean Field of Migration Management 3 Information Campaigns: Migration Management as a Global Duty for Education 4 Voluntary Return Programs: Migration Management as a Moral Responsibility to Protect 5 Anti-Trafficking Politics: Migration Management as a Struggle for Hard Facts and Soft Influence Conclusion

Inken Bartels is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück. She is a member of the research group "The Production of Knowledge on Migration," specializing in statistical knowledge production on migration in West Africa. She holds a PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research focuses on international actors and their governing practices within migration and border regimes in Africa, and is situated in the disciplines of (International) Political Sociology, International Relations, and (Critical) Migration and Border Studies.

This book examines the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) practices of international migration management and studies current transformations of migration governance and the role of International Organizations outside Europe.