The International Organisation for Migration
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The IOM works as a service-supplier in matters of migration management, control and 'repatriations', which is an euphemism for deportations. At first, the ICEM was an instrument of the settlement of refugees from the Warschau Treaty-states.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an agency for transnational migration management
Founded in 1952 the IOM has been initiated by the USA in course of the cold war against the Warschau Treaty-states under the name Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM). It is based, like the ILO or the UNHCR in seemingly neutral, because non-aligned Switzerland. 1980, it was renamed, due to its increasing global role, and the reference to Europe was left out. In 1989 it received the name International Organization for Migration. Today, the IOM has 79 member-states, 43 states with observer status, just as numerous observing international organizations, like the UN, ILO, the European Council, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and others. The IOM consists of the council of the members and the executive comittee. Its headquarters are based in Geneva. Vienna is the seat of the Technical Cooperation Centre, where all Eastern European activities are coordinated. There are also offices and 'Field Offices' in the member-states.
Before the iron curtain fell, it participated at the 'man power and brain drain' from central-European states. During the 70er years, it adopted functions with the foundation and stabilization of ethnic or religiously defined nation-states on the Indian subcontinent, just as in Eastern Africa. Under the control of the ICEM, ethnic Asians were evacuated from Uganda, muslim refugees were resettled from India to Pakistan, a continuation of the politics of the population-substitution between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
25.Dec.01
http://www.noborder.org/iom
IOM: http://www.iom.int
Founded in 1952 the IOM has been initiated by the USA in course of the cold war against the Warschau Treaty-states under the name Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM). It is based, like the ILO or the UNHCR in seemingly neutral, because non-aligned Switzerland. 1980, it was renamed, due to its increasing global role, and the reference to Europe was left out. In 1989 it received the name International Organization for Migration. Today, the IOM has 79 member-states, 43 states with observer status, just as numerous observing international organizations, like the UN, ILO, the European Council, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and others. The IOM consists of the council of the members and the executive comittee. Its headquarters are based in Geneva. Vienna is the seat of the Technical Cooperation Centre, where all Eastern European activities are coordinated. There are also offices and 'Field Offices' in the member-states.
Before the iron curtain fell, it participated at the 'man power and brain drain' from central-European states. During the 70er years, it adopted functions with the foundation and stabilization of ethnic or religiously defined nation-states on the Indian subcontinent, just as in Eastern Africa. Under the control of the ICEM, ethnic Asians were evacuated from Uganda, muslim refugees were resettled from India to Pakistan, a continuation of the politics of the population-substitution between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
25.Dec.01
http://www.noborder.org/iom
IOM:
http://www.iom.int