The constant migratory flow of new populations, made vulnerable due European asylum policies being externalised to transition countries to obstruct their path, is a real source of tension. Immigrants are subjected to a violent racism, which can often degenerate into pogroms that are largely ignored by public authorities. Migrants en route for Europe, supposedly ‘in transit’ but held up indefinitely, face steps which should only have been temporary but have now become a permanent impasse....

Today, the 26th of October, the Frontex agency celebrates ten years of existence. However the anniversary looks grim what with its European policy’s inability to bring humanity and migration control together in harmony in dealing with migratory flows. Inefficient security measures backed by questionable ethics, have been criticized due to the increasing number of victims from infamously small island. The phenomenon has turned immigration into a threat meant to be contained, a sort of vector of...

Sahel, this “sea between two shores” as Braudel likes to see it, has always been defined by its mobility. Environmentally hostile and uncertain, the movement and commerce have always been what defines it. Despite a relative lull during the colonial era and the decades of modernization, in other words, forced settlement, today it finds its role as an interface between the North and the South by immigration. North Africa has always had a role as an interface between the Sahel and Europe, but...