EXTERNALIZING MIGRATION MANAGEMENT

Introduction

In response to increased irregular migration to EU territory in 2015, the EU has introduced

a range of different policies. From the Maastricht treaty onward, migration and asylum
issues have emerged as a new “policy domain” for the European Union. Both through
incremental « acquis communautaire » constitutional reforms, and foreign engagement in
migration-related cooperation, migration and asylum have progressively become central
to European policy-making. Alongside intra-European migration regulation via the
Schengen Agreement and related EU policies, this domain has progressively sought to
advance the coordination of border and visa policies, asylum procedures, and the fight
against irregular immigration. In terms of content, the political dynamics that have
characterized this emerging policy domain have been the growing securitization of
migration discourses and migration practices and policies, as well as the progressive
“externalization” of migration and asylum management, which was until recently
considered to be an almost exclusively “domestic” domain of national politics. This work
will be structured as follows: an introduction, definition of outsourcing of migration
management, why EU apply outsourcing of migration management, the study of cases
where outsourcing are applied (Sudan, Agadez etc) and a brief conclusion.