Since the 1980s, successive analysis has highlighted ways in which border control has moved away from the territory of the controlling state. Amongst other things, this involved the use of development assistance to address the ‘root causes’ of migration. External aspects of migration control in the European Union (EU) have developed further and repressive measures to prevent irregular migration are now legitimately defined as development assistance. The EU’s 2020 Pact on Migration and Asylum has the ambitious aim to ‘help people feel that their future lies at home’ which forms the title of this chapter. This marks a further evolution. Although this phrase is a comfortable euphemism for stopping people migrating the targeting of the ‘feelings’ of potential migrants can be traced through much contemporary funding to control migration through development. This opens the possibility of using the wider literature on geographies of affect to advance work on root causes.
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Front Matter
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Part I: Approaches and perspectives on irregular migration
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Part II: Aspirations and facilitation of irregular migration
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Part III: Everyday life and (im)mobility
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Part IV: Informal and irregular labour and exploitability
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Part V: Geopolitics and micropolitics of control
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Part VI: Solidarity, advocacy and contestation
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Back Matter
