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Not only recently there is a tension between the regional aspiration of free movement and a securitization of mobility in the ECOWAS region. This securitization under the policy label of “border and migration management” translates into a de facto containment of free movement. Border closures, the militarization and infrastructural expansion of borders, and the installation of biometric control technology are just some of the various interventions to prevent undocumented migration and human trafficking.
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Prokoph, N., Donko, K., Doevenspeck, M. (2023). West African Borderlands: Between ECOWAS Free Movement and EU Externalization Policy. In: Okunade, S.K., Ogunnubi, O. (eds) ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5005-6_7
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