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Table 2 Frequency counts for rhetoric on the different approaches to migration governance

From: Managing or restricting movement? Diverging approaches of African and European migration governance

 

African documents (32 documents)

EU-Africa documents (24 documents)

EU only documents (20 documents)

General Approaches

mixed migration

0.6 (20)

0.25 (6)

0.1 (1)

right* AND dignity

0.8 (24)

2 (48)

0.7 (14)

partnership

3.3 (104)

16 (385)

16.3 (326)

Regulating Migration

Legal AND migra* NOT illegal

4 (129)

9.3 (222)

10. 3 (205)

Circular AND migration

0.5 (15)

2.7 (65)

2.7 (54)

mobility

5.4 (173)

6.3 (152)

12.3 (245)

mobility AND legal

0.8 (25)

2.5 (60)

3.3 (65)

Controlling Migration

irregular

4.9 (158)

4.5 (107)

8.5 (170)

fight* OR combat*

3.6 (114)

8.3 (199)

5.1 (101)

border management OR control

3.8 (121)

2.6 (63)

2.8 (56)

traffick* OR smuggl*

28.4 (910)

12.2 (292)

14.4 (247)

Return

4.3 (136)

5.2 (126)

8.7 (173)

voluntary AND return

1.1 (36)

2.8 (68)

3.3 (66)

  1. *is used to search for any word that begins with the root/stem of the word truncated by the asterisk. E.g. migrant, migration.