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Migration Policy Development in Mauritania: Process, Issues and Actors

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The Politics of International Migration Management

Part of the book series: Migration, Minorities and Citizenship ((MMC))

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Over the course of the last decade, several characteristics have earmarked Mauritania as a testing ground for European policies of migration. As a gateway to Europe on account of the relative proximity of its coastline to the Spanish Canary Islands, the economic capital of Mauritania — Nouadhibou — provides a strategic location for testing the efficiency of the containment measures implemented as part of the externalization of European policies of migration and asylum (Streiff-Fenart and Poutignat, 2008). Within the framework of the ‘migration routes’ approach which defines the positions adopted by EU partners in relation to the implementation of these policies, Mauritania’s limited migration flow towards Europe also provides a paradigmatic case of ‘transit countries’.

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Poutignat, P., Streiff-Fénart, J. (2010). Migration Policy Development in Mauritania: Process, Issues and Actors. In: Geiger, M., Pécoud, A. (eds) The Politics of International Migration Management. Migration, Minorities and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294882_10

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