The Impact of EU Migration Policies on African Countries

The Case of Mali

Bibliographic Data

ID9953317
AuthorsFlorian Trauner (0000-0001-5044-6818, University of Vienna Austria, corresponding author), Stephanie Deimel (University of Vienna Austria)
Year2013
Volume51
Issue4
Pages20-32
Publication date2013-03-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.12081
OpenAlexW1995077670
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited25

This article elaborates on the impact of EU migration policies on African countries, taking Mali as a case study. Building upon fieldwork in the country, it argues that enhanced European involvement ( EU and individual member states) has caused Mali to develop a more control‐oriented dimension to its migration policy and to strengthen its links with European development actors and the Malian diaspora. While these reverberations of EU policies can be likened to what scholars have established for other African countries, Mali is unusual because of its large exposure to altered regional patterns of migration cooperation. Many of the regional refoulements and deportations end in Mali despite the fact (or, perhaps, because of the fact) that the official Malian state does little to regulate these operations. In the absence of official policy responses, civil society organizations have stepped in to provide returned migrants with basic care and reception

Business · Civil society · Development economics · Diaspora · Economic growth · Economics · European union · International trade · Member states · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · International Development and Aid · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security

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