Policy Paper: Externalisation of Migration Control Policies

This policy report draws on research conducted as part
of a research network entitled the ‘Comparative Network
on Refugee Externalisation Policies’ (CONREP), funded
by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Jean
Monnet funding scheme. CONREP is an international,
interdisciplinary network of experts from six universities in
Australia and Europe. It researches the impact and effects
of the externalisation of refugee policies in two regions:
Australia’s activities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific; and
the European Union and its member states’ activities in
North Africa. These policies exploit power asymmetries to
transfer state and regional obligations and responsibility for
asylums seekers and refugees to neighbouring states.