ABSTRACT
This chapter is an attempt to problematise the ethnic boundaries of socio-political spaces of inclusion and exclusion that divide people into various socially and politically constructed categories. It further problematises state’s sovereignty and interrogates the inability of integration in West Africa to deconstruct and reconstruct these colonial and ethnic borders and the Westphalia state system. This chapter also examines the implications of the failures of enforcement of visa-free or achievement of border-free and borderless West Africa on migration in the sub-region drawing some lessons from the successes and challenges of the EU Schengen Area.
