EU

Franzisca Zanker argues in the Public Anthropologist that while the pressure to comply with the EU regarding migration-related issues is high due to asymmetric power balances, African states developed subtle and often implicit ways of responding.

Franzisca Zanker analyses European externalisation efforts and criticises the fact that the political interests of African partner countries are not sufficiently taken into account. 

In a case study, Fikreab Gintamo Gichamo examines the domestic political interests pursued by Ethiopia in its cooperation with the EU in the area of "return" migration.