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The Euro-African Migration, Development, Security Nexus in West Africa: Negotiating Mobility in Mali and Burkina Faso

Description du projet

Un examen plus approfondi des négociations entre l’UE, le Burkina Faso et le Mali

Les liens entre le développement, la migration et la sécurité constituent une part importante de la stratégie de politique étrangère européenne en Afrique. Le projet NEGOMOBI, financé par l’UE, entend enquêter sur ces liens. Il se focalisera sur des études de cas maliennes et burkinabés en Afrique de l’Ouest. Premièrement, le projet mènera une étude rétrospective de ces liens euro-africains en tant que problème public. Cela impliquera un examen historique des politiques migratoires et de sécurité mises en place par les pays occidentaux au Burkina Faso et au Mali dans un contexte postcolonial. Deuxièmement, le projet étudiera le processus actuel d’élaboration de politiques favorisant ces liens, ainsi que les négociations entre l’UE, le Mali et le Burkina Faso concernant des accord de coopération visant à solutionner cette crise migratoire et de sécurité. Le projet examinera également les effets et les contre-effets de la mobilité d’Afrique de l’Ouest.

Objectif

For about a decade, the EU experiments what it perceives as an unprecedented “migration crisis”. Moreover, since the mid-2000, the US-European agenda has integrated West Africa into the ‘Global War on Terror’ and uses its development cooperation to promote its policy. This migration-development-security nexus became a major political problem, prompting discourses, policies and dispositifs of crisis impacting African mobility. Based on a qualitative, empirical and comprehensive perspective, NEGOMOBI will investigate this nexus via the Malian and the Burkinabe case studies, in a comparative perspective. NEGOMOBI has 3 main objectives. The first one is to conduct a retrospective of the career of this Euro-African nexus as a public problem, through the design of both case studies. This will involve a work of historicization of migration and security policies promoted by Western countries in Mali and Burkina in a postcolonial setting. The second one is to study the actual policy-making process promoting this nexus and the negotiations between the EU and Mali and Burkina Faso on cooperation agreements as an attempt to solve this migration-security crisis. Finally, based on an ethnography of bus stations in Bamako and Ouagadougou, the third objective is to describe the implementation ‘from below’ of this nexus, its effects and counter-effects on West-African mobility, and the tactics and strategies developed by local actors, with a specific focus on gender issues on one hand, and on materiality on the other hand. It examines how border management and controls through technical and technological infrastructure are shaping human experience, masculinity and femininity, mobility and security in bus stations. By following the chains of actors, NEGOMOBI investigates how scales are concretely articulated in the making of a public policy and its implementation, and how this policy contribute to locally (re)produce social and political inequality through its performative effects.

Coordinateur

UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 305 778,24
Adresse
VON KRAEMERS ALLE 4
751 05 Uppsala
Suède

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Région
Östra Sverige Östra Mellansverige Uppsala län
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 305 778,24