ABSTRACT

Why have population monitoring, migration control and surveillance become a significant area of common ground in EU-African migration cooperation? This article examines the securitisation of borders in the West Africa region. It finds that state actors in Senegal and Ghana perceive the technocratic solutions that arise from this cooperation as useful in attaining domestic governance and statebuilding goals, and have presented the ECOWAS regional integration agenda and border securitisation project as congruent. This article proposes that the depoliticised nature of security cooperation, alongside specific features of the domestic policymaking contexts, allows the circumvention of domestic critique of securitisation.

摘要

为什么人口监测、移民控制和监视成为欧盟-非洲移民合作的重要共同点？本文考察了西非地区的边界安全化。它发现塞内加尔和加纳的国家行为者认为这种合作产生的技术专家解决方案有助于实现国内治理和国家建设目标，并认为西非经共体区域一体化议程和边境安全化项目是一致的。本文提出，安全合作的非政治化性质，加上国内决策环境的具体特征，可以规避国内对安全化的批评。