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Q1) What are the main reasons for migration to the EU from non-EU countries?
See section 26.1
- This necessarily connects with a wider set of debates and issues.
- For example, the effects of military interventions by some European countries have exacerbated the underlying conditions that can cause refugee flows.
- The broader patterns of economic inequality and unequal development can also cause people to migrate.
- Looking more deeply, inescapable legacies of colonization and decolonization continue to shape migration in a number of ways, including the migration networks that continue to link colonial and once-colonized states.
- Moreover, discussion of ‘good migration governance’ can be seen as requiring countries in Africa and Middle East to adapt to the requirements of European countries in relation to border control and security.
- The wider point is that migration is not something that simply ‘happens’ to European governments and the EU. The EU and its member states through their actions and inactions are a potential cause of the migration that they then seek to ‘manage’.