The Merging of EU Migration Management with the Fight Against Crime: Adverse Consequences in Africa

Co-authored by Dr Eva Magdalena Stambøl and Dr Bruno Oliveira Martins, the paper explores how EU externalization policies in the field of migration intersect with other policy agendas with crime control and security objectives. It begins by outlining the complex architecture of EU external policy instruments and institutional arrangements, before observing concrete projects and missions implemented in Africa. Further, it takes a closer look at Niger, where such policies have led to a whole range of detrimental effects. It is argued that the merging of EU migration management with the fight against crime risks undermining other long-term EU foreign policy objectives like the promotion of peace, human rights, democracy, development and stability.

Speaker Bio

Eva Magdalena Stambøl is a postdoc at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin.

Discussant

Samuel Singler – Samuel is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. His research focuses on border control technologies and crimmigration practices in Nigeria, within the broader context of North-South relations and the transnational expertise of the International Organization for Migration.

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