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

Descrizione del progetto

Uno sguardo più attento ai negoziati tra l’UE, il Burkina Faso e il Mali

Il legame tra sviluppo, migrazione e sicurezza è una parte importante della strategia di politica estera dell’Europa in Africa. Il progetto NEGOMOBI, finanziato dall’UE, esaminerà tale nesso concentrandosi sui casi di studio del Mali e del Burkina Faso, nell’Africa occidentale. In primo luogo, condurrà uno studio retrospettivo di questo legame euro-africano come problema pubblico, attraverso una revisione storica delle politiche migratorie e di sicurezza promosse dai paesi occidentali in Burkina Faso e in Mali in un contesto postcoloniale. In secondo luogo, il progetto studierà l’effettivo processo politico che promuove questo nesso e i negoziati tra l’UE, il Mali e il Burkina Faso in merito agli accordi di cooperazione come tentativo di risolvere la crisi migratoria e di sicurezza. Il progetto studierà anche gli effetti e i controeffetti sulla mobilità in Africa occidentale.

Obiettivo

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.

Coordinatore

UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 305 778,24
Indirizzo
VON KRAEMERS ALLE 4
751 05 Uppsala
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Regione
Östra Sverige Östra Mellansverige Uppsala län
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 305 778,24