Andria Kenney

Andria Kenney

  • Senior Specialist, Humanitarian Border Management
  • International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Andria Kenney has spent nearly 20 years working in support of crisis‐affected populations on issues such as migrant detention, humanitarian response, refugee resettlement, and in particular, human trafficking. She currently works on Humanitarian Border Management on behalf of IOM, engaging with border authorities and policy makers on reconciling national security prerogatives with human rights obligations, as well as operational considerations for handling migration crises. Most of Andria’s experience has been in the East, North, and Horn of Africa; though in recent years she has had more opportunity to work directly with governments, law enforcement, and protection actors across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Her experience has ranged from front‐line casework, engagement with smugglers and disengaged combatants, to high‐level policy development, curriculum design, and training delivery for judges and border guards. She has attempted to return and reintegrate in her home country of Canada, working at the Canadian Red Cross as well as a think tank specialising in security sector reform, but always finds her way back to the global migration context.

Sessions

  • Modus Operandi (Human Trafficking)

    In the spirit of interagency cooperation this workshop will facilitate the sharing of on the ground experience, real life case studies and share actionable intelligence on the movement of trafficked human beings via planes , boats and vehicles and the various methods by which the traffickers enable this movement.