Statewatch on Nostr: 1/ As the EU pushes its borders further outside its territory, they call it ...

1/ As the EU pushes its borders further outside its territory, they call it "innovative". It's not.

By examining EU border externalisation through a post- and decolonial lens, we can see clearly how externalisation is:
• an upcycling of colonial logics;
• rooted in historical practices of exclusion;
• influenced not just by European interests, but shaped with African partners and by colonial legacies; and
• a contributor to continued racialisation and anti-Black racism in North Africa.