Africa: Europe Is Spending Billions On Deporting Migrants. Why the Strategy Isn't Working

[The Conversation Africa] For over a decade, the European Union (EU) has relied on external partnerships to increase the return of migrants who don't have the right to stay in Europe.

It has used a growing web of funding instruments, projects and bilateral arrangements to get countries in Africa and the Middle East to cooperate in its bid to send migrants back to their home countries. ...