Migration, development and EU free trade deals: the paradox of Economic Partnership Agreements as a push factor for migration

Langan, Mark; Price, Sophia

doi:10.1080/23340460.2021.1969669

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“…2019, 898). Even though there are forced restrictions on the borders of the Schengen area, the administration of the relevant EU institutions has repeatedly stressed that all actions of the Member States should follow the principles of European democracies, adhere to emergency measures, be necessary, appropriate, and limited in time (Langan and Price 2021, 511). Following the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on Migration and Refugees and the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (2020) published a joint memorandum on basic guarantees of fundamental human rights applicable at the external borders of the Council of Europe and EU member states.…”

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International legal aspects of migration in the EU: Policies and standards

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The purpose of the article is to determine the basics of the migration policy in the European Union, its problematic aspects, and mechanisms for improvement. The methodological basis of the work involves a set of methodological approaches, philosophical, general scientific, and privatescientific methods, which allowed to ensure the reliability and validity of the research results. The article presents the generalization of the migration policy in European countries and ways to improve it in today's realities. The practical significance of the results obtained is that the analysis provided in the results and conclusions of this work can improve the management mechanism of migration flows in Ukraine.

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“…Studies of transnational activism against EPAs (e.g., Del Felice 2014) could link with local resistance strategies and 'patterns of politicization' (Plank et al 2021: 166-170) within ACP countries. Langan and Price (2021) analyse the EPA with Western African countries from the perspective of people in Ghana's poultry sector. However, interpretivist studies that profoundly engage with political subjectivities within the so-called ACP partner countries are, to our knowledge, non-existent within the archive of predominantly Anglophone scholarship that we know about Africa-EU relations.…”

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Decolonising EU Trade Relations with the Global Souths?

Alcazar III,

Nessel,

Orbie

2023

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That the European Union’s common commercial relations with ex-colonies and more broadly the ‘tiers monde’ now rest variously on benevolence, depoliticised practices, equal partnerships and values fuels reigning foundational myths about the EU in global politics. Efforts to disrupt these received presuppositions have come from interpretivist, postcolonial, post-development, post-structuralist and other heterodox research traditions. Yet the academy has been largely impervious to knowledges that genuinely question and subvert, in both theory and praxis, Eurocentric ways of seeing the world and understanding the EU as a ‘benevolent’ trade actor on the world stage. In dialogue with existing heterodox approaches, this article asks how we might puncture the coloniality of dominant knowledge regimes about EU trade relations vis-à-vis the global souths, i.e., peoples and places that the EU deems peripheral and, as such, in need of trade-related interventions in the name of development. To this end, we propose different ‘subject-positions’ with which to unthink and rethink our ways of knowing EU trade policy and the Eurocentrism lurking behind it by turning to decolonial thought. We borrow heavily from the work of Meera Sabaratnam whose ‘decolonising strategies’ in studying world politics we attempt to exemplify through a critical interrogation of the canonical scholarship around three distinct ‘policy worlds’ of EU external trade relations: Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters in free trade agreements. Finally, we think reflexively about the decolonial option and the ruptures it triggers as to what EU trade policy is and the colonial logics sustaining ‘normative’ and ‘geopolitical’ narratives on/by the EU as a trade power.

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“…The second being a 'fragile' state often used as a transit route for inter-continental migration. The West African region, meanwhile, bears particular importance for the EU as the so-called 'cradle of migration' from Africa to Europe (Langan and Price 2021).…”

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“…Two West African countries which are particularly interesting to consider here in terms of EU PD stories and aid delivery are Ghana and Niger, given their strategic standing. Ghana has historically been seen as a 'success story' and 'donor darling', affording it a special position within EU 'development' strategies (Langan and Price 2021). Notably, Ghana is one of few African nations to have unilaterally implemented a controversial free trade deal (EPA) with the EU.…”

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An unhealthy relationship? The reputational risks of Europe’s health focused public diplomacy in Africa

Langan

2022

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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The article assesses the reputational risks associated with health focused EU public diplomacy (PD) in Africa in the closing years of the Cotonou Agreement. Focussing on the COVID-19 pandemic, it assesses Europe's PD strategy in Africa in the wake of the virus. It explains health focused European PD stories -as well as aid delivery -in Africa in terms of the EU's self-image as a normative power, its concern for reputation management, and its power plays vis-à-vis rival donors, notably China. However, the article argues that the EU's PD focus on health narratives bears severe reputational risks for Europe in terms of opening-up wider interrogations of the health impacts of Africa-EU ties. Notably, the health risks for African citizenries of Europe's neo-colonial commercial policies far outweigh any benefits associated with the 'Team Europe' pandemic response. The article concludes by considering African agency to contest EU PD discourse on its health terrain, and to leverage the EU's reputational risks to challenge Europe's unhealthy relationship with African countries.

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Migration, development and EU free trade deals: the paradox of Economic Partnership Agreements as a push factor for migration

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

International legal aspects of migration in the EU: Policies and standards

International legal aspects of migration in the EU: Policies and standards

Decolonising EU Trade Relations with the Global Souths?

An unhealthy relationship? The reputational risks of Europe’s health focused public diplomacy in Africa

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