Multipolarity politics in the migrations: the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa

Abstract

The article present the multipolarirty politics of European States in the control of irregular migration through the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, analyzing the discourse on the texts of the fund launched in 2015 and the 2018 European Court of Auditors report on external actions carried out with resources on the African continent. A critical analysisis proposed of the multipolarity management of the block countries, with the study of the mobility of immigrants bodies based on Michel Foucault and Achielle Mbembe. An analysis of the discourse is made based on the background texts supported by decolonial epistemology. In this epistemological perspective, the possible implementation of a neocolonial policy whose real purpose is to guarantee the security of European borders is questioned, and uses the discourse of humanitarian assistance without fulfilling the main objective described in the background: “combating the root causes of irregular migration ”. Thus, the article is divided into four parts:  1. the European Union as a multipolar bloc in migration management; 2. brief description of the FFUE for Africa; 3. the lack of managerial capacity, transparency and accuracy of the results of the FFUE for Africa; 4. presentation of this FFUE as a neocolonial policy for biopolitical control of migrant bodies. It concludes that the FFUE to Africa is a neocolonial policy to ensure the security of its members and to control the mobility of Africans towards Europe.