Legal challenges relating to irregular migration governance in East Africa
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Date
2021
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The University of Dodoma
Abstract
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.
Description
Doctoral thesis
Keywords
Irregular migration, International community, Irregular migration governance, Migration, East Africa, Migration governance
Citation
Gasto, D. I. (2021). Legal challenges relating to irregular migration governance in East Africa (Doctoral thesis). The University of Dodoma, Dodoma.