The EU's migration strategy in Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon has reproduced the same conditions that led many migrants to leave their countries in the first place.
Worth a read, really a very good article! Highly recommend!
That said, TL;DR:
Rather than addressing the structural drivers of migration, EU migration agreements are exacerbating the socioeconomic fragilities that compel people to move.
Such is the policy when you don’t treat migrants as people, or at least as second-grade people. You don’t do shit, because why invest in helping them even if that would’ve naturally reduced migration, when you can just ask other countries to do whatever you need to keep them out.
Worth a read, really a very good article! Highly recommend!
That said, TL;DR:
It’s colonialism.
Such is the policy when you don’t treat migrants as people, or at least as second-grade people. You don’t do shit, because why invest in helping them even if that would’ve naturally reduced migration, when you can just ask other countries to do whatever you need to keep them out.
The alternative of rights-based development and labour market reform promoted in the article would be just as neocolonial as the current system.