Ngozi L. Uzomah

The EU’s externalization policy on border management and migration control in Africa is increasingly relying on technology. This paper explores the impact of various technological interventions, including the Migration Information Data Analysis System in Nigeria, risk analysis cells in Niger, and biometric registration of migrants in Mauritania on people’s movement. The study finds that these […]

Robel Afeworki Abay

Petra Daňková

Tanja Kleibl

Nikos Xypolytas

This paper gives a summary of various geopolitical issues of colonial continuities in the context of migration and mobility.[1] The increasingly authoritarian character of EU border management raises a number of issues related to the role of social work within a context that is heavily charged, both ideologically and politically. Based on critical analysis of […]

Elizabeth Ngari

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez

Noémie Adam Onishi

This article is dedicated to the question of externalization and human dignity in the context of asylum in Europe. It is based on the assumption that administrative technologies that organize the accommodation of asylum seekers with the help of models of spatial segregation operate in a logic of externalization. This logic aims at the material […]

Fiona B. Adamson

Kelly M. Greenhill

In the current political environment, states and their proxies go to great lengths to repel would-be asylum seekers and other migrants, increasingly using an array of tools of statecraft to prevent people from reaching their territories. These include externalizing migration processes in ways that feature transactional ‘deals’ and ‘partnerships’, which include a significant transfer of resources from one […]

Franzisca Zanker

Rwanda is not the first country to be addressed by European states in the matter of accepting third-country asylum seekers. The current debate is rather the most recent endeavour in an ongoing externalization effort that tries to convince African countries by various carrot and stick methods to take back their own “rejected” nationals, and ideally, […]

Veronica Fynn Bruey

Border externalisation represents a growing trend in global migration policy, where nations seek to manage migration flows by pushing their border controls beyond their own territories. This practice disproportionately impacts African migrants, who face significant challenges and dangers as a result. This short piece examines these impacts through the lens of an African migrant scholar […]

Madeline Garlick

Nikolas Feith Tan

As externalisation is back on the policy agenda in a number of regions around the world, it is timely to examine the definition of the concept, noting that it is not a legal term of art and does not appear in any international treaty. Moreover, it is crucial to understand the international legal frameworks within […]

Christiane Fröhlich

Lea Müller-Funk

European discourses on migration have historically been dominated by a crisis narrative, often centred around the influx of non-EU migrants. This Eurocentric perspective has led to policies focusing on externalising border control through agreements with neighbouring non-EU countries, such as the EU-Turkey Deal in 2016 and proposed ‘disembarkation platforms’ in North Africa in 2018. This […]