Periphery under pressure : Morocco, Tunisia and the European Union's Mobility Partnership on migration

LIMAM, Mohamed; DEL SARTO, Raffaella A.

Periphery under pressure : Morocco, Tunisia and the European Union's Mobility Partnership on migration

dc.contributor.author	LIMAM, Mohamed
dc.contributor.author	DEL SARTO, Raffaella A.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-30T15:40:13Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-30T15:40:13Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	Morocco and Tunisia resisted for some time pressure from the European Union to sign readmission agreements. These agreements co-opt states into the EU’s migration governance, and include a commitment to cooperation on the expulsion of unwanted migrants in Europe. Their recent acceptance of a largely unbalanced arrangement on the issue, the Mobility Partnership, came at a crucial time in the political history of these two countries. This paper shows that the EU exploited the extremely fragile and uncertain political context after the start of the uprisings, in order to push Morocco and Tunisia to sign up to the Mobility Partnership. What is more, the EU anchored the pursuit of what is a clear EU priority in a normative discourse, effectively linking cooperation on migration to EU support for democratisation in the ‘neighbourhood’, after the Arab upheavals. The article thus highlights a concrete case in which the EU engaged in realpolitik, using norms and values strategically. However, the normative framing of EU policies also contributed to the construction of an (allegedly) normative EU identity. Hence, the article challenges simplistic notions of 'normative power Europe'.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) within the 7th Framework Programme, the BORDERLANDS project is hosted at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, and directed by Professor Raffaella A. Del Sarto.	en
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dc.identifier.issn	1028-3625
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/37521
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation	Borderlands: Expanding Boundaries, Governance, and Power in the European Union's Relations with North Africa and the Middle East
dc.relation.ispartofseries	EUI RSCAS	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2015/75	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	BORDERLANDS	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.subject	European Union	en
dc.subject	Tunisia	en
dc.subject	Morocco	en
dc.subject	Migration	en
dc.subject	Mobility Partnership	en
dc.title	Periphery under pressure : Morocco, Tunisia and the European Union's Mobility Partnership on migration	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
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