“Acting together”: How Non-State Actors shape migration policies in West Africa

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dc.contributor.authorBisong, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-08T08:23:36Z
dc.date.available2024-04-08T08:23:36Z
dc.date.issued2019-11
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how non-state actors (NSAs) leverage their role in regional migration governance in West Africa. The paper focuses on the involvement of non-state actors in the migration policy process at the regional level. It unpacks the relationships between state and non-state actors, focusing on the media, non-governmental organisations, civil society organisations and academia in West Africa. It examines the engagement between state and NSAs at the regional and national levels, finding that formal and informal spaces for engagement exist and linkages between these levels of governance provide avenues for transposing national solutions to the regional level and vice versa. The paper finds that NSAs leverage formal and informal mechanisms for engagement at the regional and national levels to ensure that their interests are achieved. The paper concludes that involving NSAs in regional migration governance is essential to promote the integration of migration approaches and initiatives from the ‘bottom-up’, complementing the ‘topdown’ state-centric processes in ECOWAS.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipfunding from the Maria Sibylla Merian Centres Programme of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (under grant no. 01UK2024A-D), co-funding from the University of Ghanaen_US
dc.identifier.citationMIASA Working Paper 2019(2). Amanda Bisong. 2019. “Acting together”: How Non-State Actors shape migration policies in West Africa. Online: hyperlink.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/41457
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMerian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMIASA WP;2019(2)
dc.subjectNon-State actorsen_US
dc.subjectRegional migration governanceen_US
dc.subjectECOWASen_US
dc.title“Acting together”: How Non-State Actors shape migration policies in West Africaen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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