Euroafrican and Latin American Bilateral Migration Agreements: The Role of State-Diaspora Partnership

Abstract

In the absence of an overarching multilateral regime regulating international migration, and in an attempt to benefit from organized forms of migration management by non-state actors, governments from receiving and sending countries have come up with different initiatives that attempt to engage non-state actors, including diasporas in the development process of their countries of origin (Bauböck, 2008). Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, as well as other governments and institutions, are working with developing country diaspora groups to promote development in origin countries and to support their own foreign policy objectives, notably the goal of selective migrant recruitment.