Agents of Development or Agents of Fear? The Link Between Migration, Development, and Security in EU's Mobility Partnerships
(2012) STVK12 20121Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Since the end of the Cold War, EU migration policy has been subjected to securitization, and migrants have been viewed as potential threats to European security and homogeneity. However, in recent years the migration-development nexus has experienced a renaissance. The benefits of migration have increasingly come to influence the policy agenda.
In this setting, the Global Approach to Migration developed as the new EU strategy for migration and asylum. In 2007, the European Commission pro-posed a new instrument for cooperation with third countries on migration -Mobility Partnerships. These partnerships are concluded with neighboring coun-tries willing to cooperate on migration-related issues specifically aimed at labor mobility. The EU... (More) - Since the end of the Cold War, EU migration policy has been subjected to securitization, and migrants have been viewed as potential threats to European security and homogeneity. However, in recent years the migration-development nexus has experienced a renaissance. The benefits of migration have increasingly come to influence the policy agenda.
In this setting, the Global Approach to Migration developed as the new EU strategy for migration and asylum. In 2007, the European Commission pro-posed a new instrument for cooperation with third countries on migration -Mobility Partnerships. These partnerships are concluded with neighboring coun-tries willing to cooperate on migration-related issues specifically aimed at labor mobility. The EU has, with the implementation of this new framework for migra-tion, made an effort to move away from a security-oriented agenda towards a more comprehensive migration policy.
This study investigates current literature on the migration-development nexus on one hand, and the migration-security nexus on the other. This discussion is then combined with a discourse analysis of two documents investigating the ap-proach towards Mobility Partnerships. The study finds that the Mobility Partner-ships addresses a security discourse more than a “global approach”. The analysis show that an underlying bias remains towards third countries and that a security discourse still exists in EU’s approach to migration. (Less)
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- author
- Farner, Elisabet LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK12 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- migration, securitization, development, EU, Mobility Partnerships
- language
- English
- id
- 2544687
- date added to LUP
- 2012-06-28 10:12:40
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- 2012-06-28 10:12:40
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