Post by account_disabled on Feb 22, 2024 8:48:13 GMT
Spain, the so-called migratory flows from the African continent and the always tense relationship with the southern shore of the Mediterranean are topics that persist in the current headlines of the media for more than two decades, with always shocking images of human corpses. drowned during their dangerous journey to the Canary coast, or the massive attempts to cross the land borders of Ceuta and Melilla, such as the massive arrival of immigrants to the city of Ceuta in May of last year, a very notorious episode but not the unique, far from it. Much has been written about a migratory phenomenon from different aspects, human, political, social, about the challenges for host societies, multiculturalism, integration, etc... raising reactions and opinions of different kinds. In this sense, one of the perhaps most repeated speeches is the need to "regulate migratory flows" from the countries of origin, and the imperative of having the collaboration of neighboring countries, (Maghreb area), or transit, (Sahel zone) to successfully control and reduce migratory pressure. This collaboration is often considered one of the vital points for Spain in bilateral negotiations with African countries and a topic of debate on both sides of the Mediterranean.
Public opinion in receiving countries could be tempted to think that the arrivals of migrants to their territory depend on only one variant: the will, or lack thereof, of the authorities of the sending or transit countries. In specific cases, such as last year's episode in Ceuta, it would be very naive to deny the connivance of the North African authorities, but... is this the case in general terms? It Costa Rica WhatsApp Number is clear that it is very simplistic to assign a cause to an effect, reality is always tremendously complex, and in this case, it may be wrong to exclusively entrust the control of migratory flows to the authorities of neighboring countries. Deterrence, borders and immigrants The current reality of the African continent has been described in plenty of publications, in fact I invite the reader to investigate in more depth, even so, let us remember it very briefly. Let's start with the simple demographic reality: Africa has a population of more than billion inhabitants, a growth rate of around 2.5% annually and with almost 60% of the population under 25 years of age.
On the other hand, despite the many particularities of each country, the common denominator is that, after more than 50 years of independence of the different African nations, both the imbalance generated in the relations of dependency inherited from colonialism, as well as the inability of its political and economic elites to create minimum conditions of well-being for its inhabitants, translate into a lack of prospects for prospering on their own soil that pushes many men and women to try for the European dream. The countries of the Sahel, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, which, as mentioned above, serve as a transit for people leaving the most densely populated areas of the Gulf of Guinea, suffer from chronic political and social instability, caused, by armed conflicts with very old roots in time, to which are added the threat of groups related to Islamic fundamentalism. All of this has as a consequence the impossibility of its authorities to control territories, incidentally, of a very vast geographical extension.
Public opinion in receiving countries could be tempted to think that the arrivals of migrants to their territory depend on only one variant: the will, or lack thereof, of the authorities of the sending or transit countries. In specific cases, such as last year's episode in Ceuta, it would be very naive to deny the connivance of the North African authorities, but... is this the case in general terms? It Costa Rica WhatsApp Number is clear that it is very simplistic to assign a cause to an effect, reality is always tremendously complex, and in this case, it may be wrong to exclusively entrust the control of migratory flows to the authorities of neighboring countries. Deterrence, borders and immigrants The current reality of the African continent has been described in plenty of publications, in fact I invite the reader to investigate in more depth, even so, let us remember it very briefly. Let's start with the simple demographic reality: Africa has a population of more than billion inhabitants, a growth rate of around 2.5% annually and with almost 60% of the population under 25 years of age.
On the other hand, despite the many particularities of each country, the common denominator is that, after more than 50 years of independence of the different African nations, both the imbalance generated in the relations of dependency inherited from colonialism, as well as the inability of its political and economic elites to create minimum conditions of well-being for its inhabitants, translate into a lack of prospects for prospering on their own soil that pushes many men and women to try for the European dream. The countries of the Sahel, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, which, as mentioned above, serve as a transit for people leaving the most densely populated areas of the Gulf of Guinea, suffer from chronic political and social instability, caused, by armed conflicts with very old roots in time, to which are added the threat of groups related to Islamic fundamentalism. All of this has as a consequence the impossibility of its authorities to control territories, incidentally, of a very vast geographical extension.