by Mary Setrana, Franzisca Zanker and Lena Diakite
In this piece, we question whether the implementation of a feminist migration agenda in the political arena is at all possible. Although political inclusion and gender awareness in policymaking, including migration policy, can be counted as successes of feminist organising, this inclusion has largely been formulated and implemented superficially. Increasing numbers of African governments are developing migration policies that, to some extent, address particular issues of gender. All 55 African Union member states have ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, which entered into force on 25 November 2005. When it comes to migration, the African Union’s 2024 Migration Policy Framework for Africa evaluation report indicates that 33 member states reported implementing national migration policies in line with the goals set out in the 2018 policy document, which is designed to improve migration across the continent. Out of these, however, only six have intentionally integrated gender perspectives in national and regional migration management policies, strategies, and programmes. Ghana, Nigeria, Lesotho, Malawi, Morocco, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, South Africa, and Zambia, among others, have included gender as a crosscutting issue.
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