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The EU's Migration Policy: A Securitization Too Far by Rob Dover Abstract This article examines the EU's immigration policy as it has developed towards Sub-Saharan Africa . It argues that the securitization of this policy is counterproductive in two important ways: firstly, that the erection of further barriers to economic migration from the south, and the extra-territorialisation of this problem merely increase the transaction costs and physical dangers faced by an important source of cheap labour. And secondly, that in seeking to keep African migrants out of the EU the Union is locking economic and social insecurity into its territorial area. Furthermore this article argues that the connection of migration policy to the 'global war on terror' fundamentally mis-specifies the threat of terrorism from African sources. Moreover aid conditionality, and the policies that follow on from it, merely serve to radicalise African populations - thus creating the threat that is feared by European policymakers.
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