The Evolution of African Migration Governance Amidst Global Agendas and Foreign Interventions

This article examines the evolution of African migration governance in the context of global agendas and foreign interventions on migration. With a focus on African responses to external pressure from Europe, we explore how African actors adopt, adapt, resist or subvert interventions concerning migration and analyze the implications for states’ governance and development trajectories. The ongoing interactions both reflect and reshape power asymmetries, contributing to a reconfiguration of migration governance in Africa. We discuss how this is visible through parallel forms of governance and the cementation of external norms, with consequences for local agency, development priorities and future African-European relations.