Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new
approach to West African migrants in Europe. It argues that a migration lens is not …

Migration processes are often said to involve elements of choice and constraint in variable
measure. However, this bipolar framing may fail to capture the twists and turns in many …

Gambia, the smallest country on the African continent, is one of the largest contributors, per
capita, to irregular migrants in Europe. Aspirations to migrate are ingrained culturally, to the …

Many Gambians have a strong desire to travel internationally, and often risk their lives
embarking on the so-called 'back way'. But what of those with the strong desire but for whom …

In the region known in European Union (EU) policy frameworks as 'the Sahel and Lake
Chad', European migration-related interventions are mushrooming (see Map 4.1). In the …

This paper discusses the position of West African mobility in light of the migration and
development debate, and particularly the stance of the European Union (EU) on migration …

Whereas many African would-be immigrants dream of a European life of freedom and social-
economic progress, the reality for many of them appears to be harsh when they have …

Florian Trauner holds a Jean Monnet Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He also co-directs the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research …

This is a story, an unfinished one as every story that takes shape from a real experience. It's
both the story of a life and a memoir of a journey. They are interdependent but maintain their …

With the emergence of the transnational migration literature in the 1990s, migration theorists
have enriched our understanding of social-economic processes that are related to …