Development Aid and Migration Control through Entrepreneurship: Anatomy of a Public Action Model in the Gambia and Senegal
Based on interviews with development and migration governance actors and documentary analysis, this article explores the evolution of the concept of entrepreneurship in the context of job creation and vocational training programmes funded by the European Union in Senegal and The Gambia. Through init...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Revue européenne des migrations internationales
2025
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | Based on interviews with development and migration governance actors and documentary analysis, this article explores the evolution of the concept of entrepreneurship in the context of job creation and vocational training programmes funded by the European Union in Senegal and The Gambia. Through initiatives like the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, entrepreneurship is presented as an alternative to migration to stabilise local populations. This narrative has imposed itself on development aid institutions as a new “travelling model”, even though entrepreneurship and migration can hardly be set against each other, as they are both associated with risk-taking. This article examines how “development actors”—so far on the margins of migration management—have (or have not) adopted and implemented this discourse in their activities. |
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