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24 UCLA J. Int'l L. Foreign Aff. 163 (2020)
The Ambiguity of the Migration and Development Nexus Policy Discourse: Perpetuating the Colonial Legacy?

handle is hein.journals/jilfa24 and id is 169 raw text is: THE AMBIGUITY OF THE MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT NEXUS POLICY DISCOURSE: PERPETUATING THE COLONIAL LEGACY? Janine Silga* ABSTRACT This Article seeks to identify the influence of the colonial lega- cy on migration policies, paying particular attention to the European context. Its goal is to assess the extent to which the current policy dis- course on the migration and development nexus (MDN) stems from a conception of development that is still tightly connected with colonial- ism. Through the lens of the North-South divide-between countries labelled respectively as being 'developed' and 'developing'-this Article considers how the MDN is often envisioned, mainly in poli- cy circles, as a way of encouraging people from the global South to stay put and thus deterring their migration to the global North. Postdoctoral researcher (University of Luxembourg). This Article is the final version of a piece presented at UCLA as part of a symposium 'Critical Perspectives on Race and Human Rights- Transnational Re-Imaginings' held on 8 March. I would like to express my deep gratitude for the detailed and enthusiastic comments received from Professor Cecilia Menjivar who chaired the panel in which this Article was presented. I am also very grateful for the comments and questions formulated during this panel, both by my copanelists and by the members of the audience. I would also like to give my heartfelt thanks to Edoardo Stoppioni for his support throughout this project. Last but not least, I would like to thank all the anonymous reviewers of JILFA for their very attentive reading and detailed comments on the former versions of this Article. An earlier version of this Article was presented at the Law and Association Society as part of a panel chaired by Pro- fessor Iyiola Solanke entitled 'Iterations of the Other in Domestic and International Law'. I am greatly indebted to Professor Solanke for her early comments on this piece. This Article would not have existed without her invitation to participate in her panel and I would like to extent my warmest thanks to her.

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