ABSTRACT
This chapter examines migratory relations between the European Union (EU) and Africa from the perspective of the Mediterranean Sea, understood as a maritime bridge. Migration historically has been based around paths built through the maritime environment, although these are unregulated, and little mapped, and rarely studied in the theoretical-conceptual currents applied to migration. Based on the processes of migration and securitisation taking place at sea, the chapter discusses the particularities of migration through the maritime environment. It discusses migration relations between the EU and Africa, as well as the forms adopted by the EU to regulate flows from a strategic and a humanitarian perspective. The European continent has historically received African migrants on its Mediterranean borders, which is why we suggest the Mediterranean Sea as a maritime bridge between the EU and Africa.
