This paper analyses the dynamics of the multilevel governance of migration flows
between West Africa and Europe. Firstly, I examine bilateral, multilateral and interregional
frames of cooperation on human mobility. Secondly, I analyse the type of
governance emerging from the cooperation, focusing on his main axis -readmission
and externalisation of control- and on the tools used to prompt the negotiation, and
particularly on the linkage with development and the subsequent emergence of a
‘migratory ...
This paper analyses the dynamics of the multilevel governance of migration flows
between West Africa and Europe. Firstly, I examine bilateral, multilateral and interregional
frames of cooperation on human mobility. Secondly, I analyse the type of
governance emerging from the cooperation, focusing on his main axis -readmission
and externalisation of control- and on the tools used to prompt the negotiation, and
particularly on the linkage with development and the subsequent emergence of a
‘migratory conditionality’ in this field. Thirdly, I underline how, during the last
decade and more clearly after the recent La Valletta’s EU-Africa summit on
migration, a hegemonic European securitarian approach of human mobility had
spread and has produced a de facto displacement of the Euro-African border. Finally,
I consider the consequences of this rise of the immigration issue between Africa and
Europe, from the point of view of States as well as people on the move.
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