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University research paper Trans-Saharan voyages of vulnerability: The serial victimization of boat people before the boat  
University research paper
ICMC Policy intern Brandon Stinchfield demonstrates that the trans-Saharan migratory experience of boat people is equally, if not more, important to research and understand as their perilous sea journeys. Display under:
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As reported by ICMC Members at both ends of Afro‐European migratory routes, including Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti and Somalia, and the Association Catholic Episcopal Commission on Migration (ACCEM) in Spain, the experience of “boat people” in southern Europe begins long before they step on an unstable boat in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The many sub‐Saharan Africans among those who board boats must first make the journey to North or West Africa. Since 2000, sub‐Saharan Africans have replaced North Africans as the largest group of boat people. According to the IOM, as many as 120,000 sub‐Saharan Africans enter North Africa each year, and up to 38% (45,600 people) of them continue on to Europe. While not all trans‐Saharan migrants become boat people, many boat people cross the Sahara region before boarding boats and are subjected to a myriad of other life-threatening situations along the way.
*This paper presents research work done by the author over the course of his internship with ICMC. It does not necessarily represent the official views of the organisation. |
 
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