This 637-page work, which aims to be an expression of citizen and African commitment, questions the project of a new European pact on migration and asylum, a veritable declaration of migratory war against southerners by the European Commission at the end of 2020 and extension of the EU’s pillage of Africa‘s skills, under the guise of “Talent Partnership”.
“The subject of a late political agreement on its key points at the end of 2023 between representatives of the Council (Member States) and the European Parliament, this pact aimed at a fortress Europe, first seeks Euro-African migratory relations including the Morocco, key strategic partner in the triptych of its migration policy: emigration to Europe (nationals and foreigners), immigration and asylum in Morocco, Moroccans established in the EU”, we read in the back cover of the work .
“In connection with Africa, the pact deserves debate, stimulated by the African Agenda on migration carried by HM King Mohammed VI, Leader of the African Union on the migration issue and by his speech of August 20, 2022 on the Moroccan citizens abroad, underlines the author, noting that the overhaul of Morocco’s migration policies, under a national, Afro-centric prism and without EU cloning, calls for vigilant and critical integration of the regional and international, including the Euro-Mediterranean and Europe-Sub-Saharan African aspects, without forgetting the Maghreb dimension of migration.
Providing an in-depth analysis of this issue, Professor Belguendouz, author of several works and studies on migration, places particular emphasis on the migration policies induced for Morocco in particular and Africa in general, in the face of the draft new pact. European Union on migration and asylum, which is part of profound geostrategic upheavals, particularly in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
In his book, he offers a diagnosis of the situation and suggestions for the future, linked to the challenges and issues that arise.