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 …

European migration scholars are increasingly interested in people's onward migrations and
secondary movements. This paper takes a critical look at the conceptual underpinnings of …

Migration from Africa commonly evokes the picture of a continent fleeing from its evils
towards the European Eldorado. Such alarmist representations of an African mass exodus …

Sub-Saharan African migration towards the European Union (EU) belongs to one of the
most stigmatized forms of migration of the 21st century. It is strongly characterized by EU's …

We use two trajectory ethnographies that follow the migration processes of Sudanese and
Nigerians heading for the European Union across space and time, to explore how the main …

The 'migration journey'has proven to be a fruitful lens to question the simplistic notion that
the outcome of migration solely depends on a momentous go/no-go decision in the …

This introduction to the special issue entitled 'Africa<> Europe: Transnational Linkages, Multi-
Sited Lives' outlines the history of the African migrant presence in Europe, gives an account …

The increased flow of refugees and migrants poses challenges, opportunities and
obligations for countries around the world. In the EU, these flows have resulted in substantial …

Trapped inside lorries or huddled aboard unseaworthy boats, irregular African migrants
make for troubling headlines in western media, fueling fever pitch fears of an impending" …

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book is
concerned with the effects of migration policy making in Europe on migrants in the Global …