598 Revista del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos Núm. 2 / 2013 paying special attention to economically and socially depressed areas” (p. 58). 1.3 Identifying the practices and actions of policy externalisation There is a concern in defining the different strategies for the externalisation of migration Policies. A. Papadopoulos33, for instance, identifies three basic strategies: • remote control strategy: transfer of border controls to third countries and/or border countries; • remote protection strategy: emphasis on the extra-territorial dimension of refugee protection; • capacity-building strategy in certain sending and transit countries, which mainly includes the transfer of know-how, surveillance technologies, facilities and institutions. In a bid to identify the concrete practices that define this policy, the following table shows three dimensions of practices through which the externalisation of policies is conceptualised, and the different actions within each: Table II The main practices and actions involved in the externalisation of migration policy Diplomatic practices External institutions Policies Bilateral meetings Multilateral meetings Readmission agreements Camps and processing centres Immigration offices Border control Visa Return Repatriation Extradition policies I will now proceed to describe these. 1.3.1 Diplomatic practices This refers to activities taking place outside the territory.34 Such activities could consist of bilateral (between sending/receiving countries) or multilateral meetings (among several countries or at the regional level). These diplomatic practices may also 33 PAPADOPOULOS, Apostolos, op cit., 2007, pp. 95-100. 34 LAVENEX, Sandra, op cit, 2006, pp. 329-350.
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