Between north and south

Global Migration Group (GMG) with a brief to “promote The partnership’s current 12-point action plan includes the wider application of all relevant international and the establishment of an African Institute for Remittances regional instruments and norms relating to migration, in Addis Ababa, the implementation of the Ouagadougou and to encourage the adoption of more coherent, Action Plan to Comba [...] The documents of regional blocs throughout the ACP, including AU has even rebranded the African diaspora as the “sixth the AU, the Economic Community of West African States, region” of the continent and held the first Global African the SADC, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Diaspora Forum in South Africa in 2012. [...] Article 13 of the agreement specifies that of Ministers meeting in Papua, New Guinea “concluded “[t]he issue of migration shall be the subject of in-depth a major agreement on financing the Cotonou Partnership dialogue in the framework of the ACP-EU Partnership” Agreement” and also “held a debate on migration and (EC, 2010). [...] The failure of the EU and ACP to reach The declaration’s plan of action includes the establishment an agreement on a reworded Article 13 resides primarily in of an Intra-ACP Migration Facility and the ACP Migration the clause on readmission, which the EU insists should be Observatory. [...] It was at this meeting legal and financial environments for enhancing the that the deep divisions between the EU and the ACP over multiplier effects of remittances; and reducing the revisions to the security components of Article 13 were cost of transfers “while recognising the private nature once again apparent.