Reversing the gaze: West Africa performing the EU migration-development-security nexus

This special issue empirically investigates how EU securitization and management of migration, implemented through the channels of development aid, have gained (or not) traction in francophone West African contexts. The contributions to this issue accentuate the perception of the so-called migration-development-security nexus as seen from the “South”. Describing, deconstructing and criticizing the EU policy framework by having an ethnographic focus on West Africa, and the Sahelian countries i..