Philosophical perspectives and policy on migration: towards a supranational partnership between African and European unions

Abstract

The task of this study is to critically explore the various perspectives on migration – philosophical and policy, and to propose for effective cooperation policies between the European Union and the African Union in curbing the influx of irregular migrants as well as policies of admission/readmission for undocumented migrants. We establish that migration sometimes creates enormous problems for both sending and receiving countries, such as patches of extremism, brain drain, huge numbers of recorded deaths, etc. However, we hypothesized that better concerted effort at the supranational level is an important regulatory approach to effectively minimize the dangers and negative effects of the current spate of voluntary illegal migration from Africa to Europe. Our position is that strong collaborative effort anchored on robust theoretical foundation is a potent complementary solution to make migration a development-oriented phenomenon rather than being a problem for governments to always deal with