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africa, migration, spain

New Deals with Guinea and Gambia

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Spain has announced deals with Guinea and Gambia to curb the flow of illegal migrants towards Europe in a diplomatic offensive that pledged more Spanish aid and cooperation to poor West African states. (…)

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos (…) announced a €5 million ($8.49 million) aid package, part of a two-pronged strategy that seeks to halt migrant departures and also back long-term development aimed at persuading young Africans to stay in their own nations.

In Gambia, he sealed a similar deal to expand legal migration channels while tightening controls to keep out clandestine job-seekers from the world’s poorest continent.

“We will open avenues where Gambians can have opportunities to work in Spain legally if they have legal documents,” he told reporters after signing the agreement in Banjul.

A record number of around 26,000 mostly African migrants have landed in the Canaries this year (…)
NEWS.com.au (10 Oct 2006)

africa, migration, spain

Crossing the Strait

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“People flow” northwards across the Strait is driven by a vast disparity in wealth – average income in Spain, at around $15,000, is thirteen times that of Morocco – and currently seems unstoppable. (…) [The Spanish] foreign population, now 2.6 million (in a total of 40 million), has quintupled since 1996; it includes around 600,000 Moroccans (…)

Migration, in short, works as a safety-valve that helps to forestall any prospect of major change in this key Arab nation. “The result of so much migration is that people stop thinking of any collective alternative. People only think about how to escape individually, while others simply do not care what happens to them,” asserts Abdelhamid Beyuki
openDemocracy

africa, migration, spain

248 immigrants a day to Spain’s Canary Islands

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Spain said Saturday that its coast guard had intercepted four boats within 24 hours carrying 248 would-be immigrants from West Africa as they arrived in the Canary Islands, and had sighted another.
248 immigrants arrive in 24 hours by boat to Spain’s Canary Islands - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM