Land and property rights, migration, andcitizenship are complex issues that cut across all social,economic, and political spheres of West Africa. This paperprovides an overarching scoping of the most pressingcontemporary issues related to land, migration, andcitizenship, including how they intersect in variouscontexts and locations in West Africa. The way issues areanalytically framed captures structural challenges and setsthem against the regional and global meta-trends of whichpolicy makers and practitioners should be aware forconflict-sensitive planning. The paper points to some of theeffective practices in managing and mitigating these issuesand also raises several questions on areas for futureresearch. Part one lays out the migratory context in WestAfrica. It points to the type, nature, and extent ofmobility that characterizes the region. Part two sets outWest Africa’s land tenure and management systems, includingstructural challenges, general management policies, and keyissues related to land tenure and migrants. Part threeframes the key land and migration meta-trends in the contextof fragility. Part four concludes with an overallexploration of the paper’s results and puts forward a seriesof research questions that are necessary in order to discernthe most effective and realistic operational approaches.
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