ABSTRACT

Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa entailed a proliferation of policy tools for EU external migration governance. After the signature of Mobility Partnerships, the EU launched Migration Compacts, whose inner logic is to ‘avoid the risk that concrete delivery is held up by technical negotiations for a fully-fledged formal agreement’. This paper examines the development of the EU’s external migration governance and frames it into a formalization/informalization dichotomy. We argue that the EU-led securitisation of migration has contributed to the increasing informalization of EU-third countries agreements. The case of Jordan is relevant in understanding the EU’s approach, as a strategy to muddle through in a region in turmoil.

摘要

中东和北非最近发生的事件导致欧盟外部移民治理政策工具的激增。在签署流动性合作伙伴关系后，欧盟启动了移民契约，其内在逻辑是“避免具体交付因技术谈判而受到阻碍以达成全面正式协议的风险”。本文考察了欧盟外部移民治理的发展，并将其框架化为正规化/非正规化二分法。我们认为，欧盟主导的移民证券化促进了欧盟第三国协议的非正规化。约旦的案例有助于理解欧盟的做法，将其作为在动荡地区度过难关的战略。