Migration Management and Development Policy Issue-Linkage in European Union External Relations

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Venturi, Emily
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science

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After establishing the emergence of migration as an EU foreign policy priority, this study evaluates the contributing factors and preliminary outcomes of the linkage of migration management to development policy in EU external governance after the African-European 2015 Valletta Summit on Migration. With Italy as an EU member state case-study and Senegal as a non-EU partner country case-study, the research draws evidence from expert interviews conducted between May 2017 and July 2017 with EU officials, Senegalese and Italian governments representatives, and civil society actors. The impacts of issue-linkage on development cooperation ranged from micro-level project management to macro-level tensions concerning conditionality and the EU’s role as a development actor. The impacts of issue-linkage on migration management included the stagnation of legal migration initiatives, human rights protection, and readmission efforts. Overall, the study argues that securitization compromises EU-Senegal joint efforts to link migration management and development policy. This research contributes to the emerging discussion on the long-term consequences of the EU’s current short-term security priority of reducing irregular migration.

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