OAMI 2165 - Governing international migration in Africa

This course offers an ethnographic approach to the distinctive nature of the governance of international migration multilevel intervention in Africa. It deals with the UNHCR and the IOM, comparing the IOGs' activities to understand how they channel migration norms on the continent. Building on a relational approach, the course red thread focuses on how IOGs channel and deal with asymmetrical relations between Global North and Global South states, institutions, and social actors. The various case studies rooted in practice-based analysis, mainly from East, West, and North Africa, will enable students to delve into the intervention in everyday life, at the borders with the police, in the hushed atmosphere of ministries during negotiations with donors, in the offices of intergovernmental organizations or contact with migrants and refugees in migration response centres or refugee camps.

Learning Outcomes :

• The course aims to give a historical overview of the governance of international migration intervention in Africa.
• The course offers an insight into the variety of forms taken by the governance of international migration and the diversity and complexity of the institutions and actors involved.
• The course invites students to decenter the gaze and learn about global governance from the perspective of local African institutions and actors.
• The course proposes to go beyond a critical analysis to give students a nuanced analysis of the asymmetrical migratory relations between North and South.
• The course intends to demonstrate that adopting a relational and practice-based approach (in line with anarchist anthropology) enables critically examining the IOG intervention without embracing mainstream critical perspectives often characterized by essentialism and moralization.

Professional Skills:

The course enables students to measure the gap between the content of a project and the challenges linked to its implementation in developing countries and compare the various choices made by IOG to overcome this gap.

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Summary paper drawing from readings–1000 words

Readings oral presentation

Final Paper: (60%) 12-15 Times New Roman pages double spaced

The paper consists of a critical analysis of a case study freely chosen by the student and approved by the teacher.