EU's Interests in Regulating Migration Flows from African Countries

In his master's thesis on "EU’s interests in regulating migration flows from African countries", the author considers the phenomenon of an " interest " as one of the main prerequisites for constructing a national identity. And in the case of the European Union – a supranational identity. The novelty of the work lies in the adopted system, which considers EU member states’ interest in regulating migration flows from Africa individually and the EU as a whole. These frameworks have been constituted in academia as forms of postcolonial domination and violence (material, systemic, and epistemological). This work’s relevance is conditioned to the relevance of identity politics discourses and to the severity of problems arising in connection with the refugee and migrant crisis that began in 2015 and still continues to this day. To reflect upon the epistemological dominance of the EU, the author conducted a content analysis of media articles from ten member States of the European Union on the quantitative and qualitative coverage of migration problems and on the formation of perception images of migrants and refugees during the migration crisis. In the third Chapter, three forms of interaction between the EU and the African continent were considered in accordance with the value-oriented identity declared by the European Union: the externalization of EU borders in Africa; EU-NATO-AU cooperation on migration regulation; and the EU-AU summitry policy. This Chapter, in turn, illustrates the forms of EU material and systemic violence over former colonial territories and their populations.