ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa

Introduction.- Chapter 1: A Borderless region and the pursuit of Continental Free Trade Agreement in West Africa.- Part I: ECOWAS and AfCFTA in West Africa and Beyond.- CHAPTER 2: ECOWAS ‘Borderless Protocol’ and the AfCFTA: Blessing or Burden for Africa’s ‘Smiling Coast’?.- CHAPTER 3: Gendered Insecurity and Mobility in West African Borderlands: putting the Nigeria/Niger border in perspective.- CHAPTER 4: Nigeria-Benin Border Trade in the Context of the ECOWAS.- CHAPTER5: AfCFTA-ECOWAS Regional Integration Initiatives and EUFTA Migration Governance: The Undoing and Doing of Borders in West Africa.- Part II: ECOWAS Protocol and the AfCFTA: Understanding the Political-Economic and Security Dimensions.- CHAPTER 6: Border Closure in Nigeria: Implications for the AfCFTA and Communities on the Benin-Nigeria Corridor.- CHAPTER 7: West African Borderlands: Between ECOWAS Free Movement and EU Externalization Policy.- CHAPTER 8: Borderless Africa, Illegal Migration and Food Insecurity in West Africa.- CHAPTER 9: Integrating AFCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) into a Borderless ECOWAS Region: An evident Bluster, a Strategy or a Reality.- CHAPTER 10: ECOWAS Borderless Protocol, AfCFTA and Cross-Border Criminalities and (In)Security Challenges in West Africa.- Part III: Borderless West Africa and AfCFTA: Challenges and Opportunities for African Development.- Chapter 11: The ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons in Nigeria’s Borderlands, Challenges and Lessons for AfCFTA.- CHAPTER 12: African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement and Challenges of Borderlands in the ECOWAS Region