Aiding Autocrats

Migration Management, Governance, and Repression in Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-72912-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Migration management aid has increased exponentially since 2016, often funding repression in the process. Drawing on global datasets and in-depth country case studies of Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan, Kelsey P. Norman and Nicholas R. Micinski present a theoretical framework for this form of foreign assistance. This study traces the historical roots and evolution of migration management aid, explaining its politics, its impact on governance, and its long-lasting, deleterious effects on migrants, refugees, and citizens alike. While wealthy countries tout migration management aid as a way of increasing development and stopping emigration from the Global South, Aiding Autocrats exposes how this type of assistance funds authoritarianism by perpetuating colonial systems of extraction and repression and allowing local elites to leverage aid for their own purposes. Aiding Autocrats is an essential contribution to scholarship on migration management, foreign aid, development, and democratization as well as Middle Eastern, African, and European politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norman, Kelsey P.

Micinski, Nicholas R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Defining migration management aid; 3. Migration management aid in global perspective; 4. The European union and migration management aid; 5. Kenya: encampment, aid dependency, and incremental reform; 6. Ethiopia: politicized aid and broken promises; 7. Egypt: improving infrastructure and supporting patronage networks; 8. Sudan: capicitating border security ahead of civil war; 9. Conclusion; Appendix I. Qualitative coding; Appendix II. Interviewee list; Appendix III. Quantitative codebook; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Norman, Kelsey P.
Kelsey P. Norman is a Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees program at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. She is the author of Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (2020).

Micinski, Nicholas R.
Nicholas R. Micinski is an Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University. He is the author of Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (2022) and UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees (2021).