International Organization For Migration (IOM): From The Perspective Of Global Governance

The demand and supply issues of global governance have become one of the great practical problems in the international community nowadays. On the demand level, the "publicity and negative externality" features of non-traditional global issues, and highly interdependent nature of international community call for the rise of the governance of global issues during the process of the Globalization. On the supply level, these features in turn determine the inherent mechanism of supply of global public goods, namely, the traditional conceptual scheme of sovereign state governance is far from meeting the all-round of globalization of the international environment, the behavior bodies in the global system play an indispensable role on the supply of global public goods, and international organizations is regarded as an important subject of global governance, owing to its unique functional attributes.Because of its transnational, liquidity, global and cross-cutting characteristics, international migration and its problems have risen from domestic issues to the cross-border issues like the other global issues increasingly, so the global migration governance issue is going to be on the international agenda. Of course, the key point of international migration governance is not to "prevent" the happening of immigration phenomenon, but to make it more "orderly", which is one of the goals of International Organization for Migration (IOM). In the long process of historical development, IOM has accumulated a wealth of expertise and partnership resources, and proved to be an important actor in the field of international migration increasingly. However, for the time being, IOM is far away from the vision of the domestic academic research. Even if some scholars pay attention to it, but the research on the organization and its immigration governance still remains in the description of the facts, lack of theoretical judgment and analysis, and its role is questioned.In response to this phenomenon, the paper attempts to take IOM as a case study. Based on the argument that international organization is an active participant in governance of the global issues, the paper explains the role, patterns, governance effectiveness of international organization in the process of governance of the global issues, which is regarded as the premise of describing the paper's core question--what role does IOM play in the process of global migration governance. And then from the perspective of global governance, the paper tries to "read" what role, how and why to play a role during the process of global migration governance for IOM which is not like the state that has guns, money and strong cornerstone of the domestic law through the historical exploration, theoretical analysis and practical inspection. In order that the paper can provide an analysis method of global migration governance and establish an objective cognitive analysis framework of the status and role of IOM in today's global immigration process. In addition, by clarifying the relationship between IOM and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the paper compares the differences of their agendas and influences, and then discusses the necessity of strengthening the complementary partnership and its content in the process of global migration governance. Finally, the paper discusses the role, the limits and constraints of IOM in the process of global migration governance as a whole, and describes the role of IOM for the future development.