Fostering Free Movement of Persons in West Africa: Achievements, Constraints, and Prospects for Intraregional Migration

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Tourism and migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National
  • Subnational