Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing Eu Border Controls to Africa

Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe is a detailed journalistic account of how the EU is attempting to limit mobility within the African continent as a matter of the EU's domestic policy agenda, hence the title hinting at the many agreements (with Turkey, Libya, Sudan) aimed at blocking migrants from approaching the European continent. The new "Berlin Wall" not only encircles Europe, but also generates a proliferation of militarised borders in Africa. ...To summarise, the authors argue, Europe desires protected borders and open markets. The novelty is the amount of material that this book contains about African desires and

strategies, both as a continent and as single states. This, in particular, makes the work a collection of extremely valuable directions of research. In fact, Africa, if one were to simplify the continent's intentions, is depicted as aspiring to the exact opposite of Europe, namely open borders (with the African Union aspiring to free movement within the continent) and protected markets (protected from Western corporate predatory strategies). Moreover, contrary to the narrative of aid according to which the West "helps develop" Africa, the figures quoted by the authors suggest the opposite: while Sub-Saharan Africa receives $134 billion a year in development funding, $192 billions flow out of Africa, with $46 billion in profit for major corporations and another $35 billion vanishing in tax havens (218). The USA is divided around the wall President Trump wants to build along the Mexican border. Europe has long answered this question at its own southern border: put up that wall but don't make it look like one. Today the EU is trying to close as many deals as it can with African states, making it harder and harder for refugees to find protection and more dangerous for labour migrants to reach places where they can earn an income. But this is not the only effect: the more Europe tries to control migration from Africa, the harder it becomes for many Africans to move freely through their own continent, even within their own countries.

Author: Christian Jacob, Simone Schlindwein
Publisher: Daraja Press
Published: 06/14/2019
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781988832272

About the Author
Jakob, Christian: - Born in 1979, Christian studied sociology, economics, philosophy in Bremen and Milan, and Global Studies in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Delhi. From 2006 to 2014 he served as editor of the daily newspaper Taz.de, after which he has worked there as reporter. Together with Simone Schlindwein and Daniél Kretschmar, he was received an award for the migration project Migration Control from the German Otto Brenner Foundation in 2017. is based on his research. He can be contacted on Twitter: @chrjkb.Schlindwein, Simone: - "Born in 1980, she studied East European studies, from 2006 to 2008. She was Moscow correspondent for the Spiegel, but since 2008 she has been living in Uganda and is the correspondent of the German tageszeitung (taz.de) for the Great Lakes region: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan. In 2016 she was awarded the journalists' prize Die lange Atem for research on the Rwandan Hutu militia FDLR in DRC and the corresponding book Crime Scene Congo - Trial in Germany. Together with Christian Jakob and Deniél Kretschmar of the German Otto Brenner Foundation, she was awarded the Media Project Prize in 2017 for the migration project Migration Control, on whose research tDictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU border controls to Africa is based. http: //simoneschlindwein.blogspot.de/"