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Flujos Migratorios Subsaharianos hacia Canarias-Madrid, edited by Antonio Marquina [UNISCI, 2008], 441pp, ISBN: 978-84-95838-15-5.

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Vincent
Published date01 September 2009
AuthorFernando Celaya Pacheco
DOI10.3366/E0954889009000449
Date01 September 2009
Pages355-356
Going North: How to mitigate Sahelian Migration?

Last September a large boat packed with 230 Sahelian migrants, including 25 children, arrived at the Canary Islands. This was the largest single arrival of so many desperate Sahelian migrants recorded to date in Spain. The type of boat which serves as transport means for illegal migrants from northern Africa commonly receives the name patera (smaller) or cayuco (larger). However, because of its sheer size, the boat that arrived on this date was called ‘supercayuco’. Never before had border protection authorities seen a cayuco 30 metres long and with so many illegal migrants on board.1

‘Un supercayuco con 230 inmigrantes bate todos los records de llegadas a las costas’, El Mundo (30 September 2008).

Although Spanish border protection, rescue, law enforcement and EU authorities are required to ‘control’ the flow of illegal migration, the reality is that Spanish and EU Immigration policies behind such enforcement have not worked in the past, are not working presently and will not work in the future. As a result, these authorities, despite all efforts, remain ‘managers’ of illegal migration flows rather than effective enforcers

A scholarly analysis based on climate projection models pointing to an increase in the variability of weather conditions throughout the Sahel for the years 2011–40 and 2041–70, produced by Antonio Marquina, PhD and the UNISCI, Spanish acronym for Research Unit on International Security and Cooperation from the Complutense University of Madrid, Flujos Migratorios Subsaharianos hacia Canarias-Madrid, argues that, at the core, the Sahelian migration problematic is stymied by two key factors: first, by the lack of vision with regard to changing climatological dynamics affecting the Sahelian region and, hence, its populations. And, second, by the inability of local, national and international authorities to accept that ‘the economic growth model based on exports of primary consumption products and industrialization for the substitution of imports has to be considered inefficient and obsolete’.2

Antonio Marquina (ed.), Flujos Migratorios Subsaharianos hacia Canarias-Madrid (Madrid: UNISCI, 2008), p. 47.

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