The development assistance paradigm in the EU`s engagement with Africa on matters of migration is nothing more than a façade for the EU to securitize and externalize its borders and in the process exclude Africans intending to migrate to the EU. This cements asymmetrical power relations in terms of the implementation of policies to manage migration that satisfies the securitization of migration logic and not managing migration for development and integration. In this respect, the EU development assistance to African countries carries conditions whose target is pressuring the latter to contain migrants so that they do not migrate to the former. This paper argues that this management of migration in Africa by the EU for the EU has transformed and continues to transform people and places with complex implications.
Mots clés : Africa|Border externalization|European Union |Migration
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