CIAO DATE: 02/2012
December 2011
Danish Institute for International Studies
The objective of this brief is to provide a ‘reversed criticism’ of the partnership agreements on migration between the EU and bordering countries – the so-called Mobility Partnerships. These partnerships are made to facilitate migrants’ mobility and to include the states adjacent to the EU in the governing of migration, but they do not primarily focus on migrants’ rights. Morocco and Tunisia are the first countries after the popular uprising in North Africa to start consolidating the dialogue on migration with the EU, as adopted by The Council of Europe in June 2011. Both of the two countries are exit, transit and destination countries. In this brief, the reversed criticism of the Mobility Partnership is exemplified by a fictive partnership agreement with Morocco and Tunisia, structured exactly like existing partnerships but based on opposite values, namely on the rights of the migrants.
Resource link: The 'right' Mobility Partnership between the European Union, Morocco and Tunisia [PDF] - 133K