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    Legal challenges relating to irregular migration governance in East Africa
    (The University of Dodoma, 2021) Gasto, Deogratias Ishengoma
    Governance of irregular migration has recently been a concern of the international community due to changes in terms of drivers, stocks and flows, actors and its impacts to social, economic and political systems. This means, the factors that either push or attract people to move irregularly across international frontiers, the role played by agents and technology in facilitating movements and its impacts have increasingly been heterogeneous, evolving and challenging. The problem addressed in this study is lack of adequate and effective laws, policies and institutions governing irregular migration in the East African Community (EAC) and selected Partner States of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The study aimed at examining irregular migration governance challenges caused by the current laws, policies and institutions in the EAC and selected Partner States The study being descriptive and qualitative in nature, employed library research, interview and observation as key methods of data collection. Weighed against universally acceptable irregular migration governance standards from international instruments and best practices in other Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the study has established that irregular migration governance frameworks in both EAC and selected Partner States are fundamentally inadequate, ineffective and contradictory. Also, the study has found that while the frameworks are generally security reactive and country centred, they do not address themselves to a number of pertinent issues in irregular migration governance such as smuggling of persons, transit migration and durable solutions. Also the findings of this study indicate that various institutions tasked with governance of irregular migration at both levels are poorly coordinated and lack technical and financial capacities to effectively execute their roles. In order to address the identified challenges the study recommends that adequate, harmonious, effective and well-coordinated legal, policy and institutional frameworks should be developed at both national and regional levels.