Migration Without Borders : North Africa as a Reserve of Cheap Labour for Europe

This paper examines the scenario of migration without borders and the relationship between countries in the southern and the northern shores of the Mediterranean, Southern and Western Europe and North African countries. The demographic changes in Europe, where the population of countries such as Spain and Italy would actually be declining if it was not for migration, force European countries to find ways for maintaining economic growth and labour demands. At the same time, countries in the southern shore of the Mediterranean suffer from high levels of population growth, unemployment, economic and socio-demographic pressures. This paper sheds some light on the possibility of liberating labour movement between these two regions and its positive and negative implications for both sides