Tag: Development
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Africa Is Our Country
In this post, Yacine Ait-Larbi makes a case for the need to consider free movement within the African continent as a key asset for Algeria’s ambitions to reform its economy. The author argues that Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), such as the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), offer Algeria a unique opportunity to revitalise migration…
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The EU Africa migration agenda
In this post, Claire Kumar from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reflects on a high-level policy seminar which aimed to explore challenges and concerns around migration governance and gather recommendations for charting a new path for future.
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Transnational Skills Partnerships between Ghana and Germany: A “triple-win” solution?
Global skills partnerships are often mentioned as a viable solution for creating legal South-North migration pathways, which may offer educational and livelihood options for aspiring migrants while also providing much needed inflows to labour markets in the global north. The Global Compact for Migration spelled out this rationale but so far, very few concrete programmes…
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Africa at the gates: Europe’s lose-lose migration management plan
Since the summer of 2015, the question of how to stem the flows from Africa and the Middle East is at the centre of increasingly existential debates about the very future of Europe. Loren B Landau and Iriann Freemantle contemplate the underlying logics and effects of EU migration management.