El Búmeran imperial en la última colonia de África

Securitización en torno al Sáhara Occidental y las fronteras con Europa

Abstract

This article aims to present a state of the art on the ways in which feedback has occurred in the long term between Spain and Morocco around Western Sahara, and which particularly affects the self-determination of the Sahrawi people and inter-African and international mobility of communities from the continent on the routes to the European continent. To do this, the concept of the “imperial boomerang” is taken in relation to securitization, to analyze how Spain's colonial violence in its North African colonial territories returned to the metropolis with the use of colonial troops by Franco in the Spanish Civil War, and currently feeds back into Morocco's forms of repression towards its civilian population. This is related to the technologies of surveillance and repression applied to the Sahrawi refugee camps, and the economic incentives granted by the European Union to transform the Global South on its external borders.