African regional consultative meeting on the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration : recommendations
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United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa;African Union Commission;
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At the United Nations Summit on 19 September 2016, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants was adopted. The Declaration, aimed at improving the governance of migration, set out steps towards the achievement of a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in 2018. The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the African Union Commission, organized the African Regional Consultative Meeting on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. One of the main objectives of the regional consultation was to ensure that Africa’s narratives and priorities would be adequately reflected in the global compact for migration. In contrast to migration in other regions of the world, African migration is widely depicted as a phenomenon driven by poverty, violence, lack of employment and livelihood opportunities, and other forms of human misery. Images in the media frequently depict African migrants in overcrowded boats, desperate to reach European shores. Such images are suggestive of a “migration crisis” and have skewed migration narratives, which tend to focus on Africans heading north. Furthermore, the global discourse tends to anthologize and criminalize mobility. These negative factors have influenced migration policy responses such that the policy agenda on African migration is now driven largely by external forces.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa; African Union Commission (2017-10). African regional consultative meeting on the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration : recommendations. UN. ECA African Regional Consultative Meeting on the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2017, Oct. 26-27: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). Addis Ababa. © UN. ECA. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/24074”Conference
UN. ECA African Regional Consultative Meeting on the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2017, Oct. 26-27: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)Collections
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