19 January 2015

The frontier between 'high' and 'low' politics of migration in Burkina Faso

Scholars have contested the effectiveness of migration policies. While migration policy research has mainly been conducted in re- ceiving states, even emigration policies are generally evaluated against the interests of receiving states, which is mainly the ability to control migration. This working paper instead brings the sending state back in, and asserts that ‘filling the sending-country gap’ should go beyond the role of policies in shaping (or reducing) migration. It therefore contributes to ongoing research of the in- terplay between receiving and sending states and the ‘failure’ of their respective policies.