The African Diaspora Policy Centre (ADPC) enables African Diaspora in Europe to
connect more closely with the continent as a collective force. The thematic areas are Peacebuilding, Better Governance, Migration & Development and Brain Gain
Beyond Migration Management Policy: An Alternative Discourse
October 2009
Photo: Policy Seminar on the Participation of the Diaspora in the Joint Africa-EU Strategic Partnership, 1-2 October 2009.
The first policy brief attempts to spark a discussion that goes beyond the current migration-management discourse. It advances an alternative research agenda that counter-balances the prevailing migration-management policy agenda currently pursued by most countries in Europe. The narrow preoccupations of migration-management policy largely exclude the key links between migration and development. This biased policy priority tends to skew discussions about migration, contributing to the politicisation of migration discourse in Western countries. In turn, migration-management policies result in the incubation of hostile perceptions towards migrants in host countries, largely overlooking the positive contributions that migrants make to both home and host countries. More specifically, migration-management policies are mostly motivated by the assumed havoc that undocumented and uncontrolled migrants can cause in the host countries they arrive in. Thus, in the context of migration-management discourse, migration is a problem and needs to be controlled.
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The first policy brief attempts to spark a discussion that goes beyond the current migration-management discourse. It advances an alternative research agenda that counter-balances the prevailing migration-management policy agenda currently pursued by most countries in Europe. The narrow preoccupations of migration-management policy largely exclude the key links between migration and development. This biased policy priority tends to skew discussions about migration, contributing to the politicisation of migration discourse in Western countries. In turn, migration-management policies result in the incubation of hostile perceptions towards migrants in host countries, largely overlooking the positive contributions that migrants make to both home and host countries. More specifically, migration-management policies are mostly motivated by the assumed havoc that undocumented and uncontrolled migrants can cause in the host countries they arrive in. Thus, in the context of migration-management discourse, migration is a problem and needs to be controlled.
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