Thoughts on irregular and regular immigration in West Africa. What does the future of this area look like?

The irregular circulation of migrants throughout Europe was now a necessary daily occurrence in recent years for the European context as well as for other reasons and with other modes of circulation also from Africa. This paper seeks to analyze regular and irregular migrations in West Africa according to the ECOWAS system and towards the process of sub-regional economic integration. The ECOWAS treaty offered us a mechanism that achieved an ambitious regional economic integration project, revealing an implementation that prefigured a management mechanism for irregular migration. The regulation that operates in the adoption of the ECOWAS treaty, as well as the high rate of migration in the area represent a notable increase in irregular flows that are linked to phenomena of political instability. Of course, they escape the regulatory mechanism that was envisaged both by the treaty and by the additional protocol. The control of irregular migratory flows has taken on an important value for African countries given the pressures that are exerted by the European Union and are focused on the pathological aspect of migratory phenomenon. The European pressure policies seem to follow an important change in the African countries of the migratory phenomenon which continues to be conceived in the context of a local and regional integration project and an economic development which outlines an ECOWAS system remaining on a path that is not been done.