The EU emergency trust fund for Africa: an approach of development aid increasingly linked to the EU’s migration policy.
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- The creation of the EUTF seems to illustrate that 2015 constitutes a turning point in the way the development and migration policies of the European Union interact and that they are more and more integrated. This thesis will try to investigate if 2015 represents indeed a turning point in the way the development policy towards African countries is implemented and if it is increasingly influenced by the migration policy of the European Union. In order to do so, a text analysis of official reports on development published by the European Union from 2010 to 2020 will be presented to see how the way the migration topic is presented evolves over time and if a change can be observed after 2015. Then, a gravity model of migration will be implemented in order to see how the numbers of asylum seekers and migrants are influenced by the amount of ODA given by European countries and by the European institutions. This will enable to study the patterns between aid and migration flows and to see if a change in the way both flows interact can be observed after 2015.