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ABOUT THE BOOK

This book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa. It advocates a need to rethink Africa-Europe relations and view migration and borders as a resource rather than sources of a crisis.

Migrant movement from Africa is often misunderstood and misrepresented as invasion caused by displacement due to poverty, violent conflict and environmental stress. To control this movement and preserve national identities, the EU and its various member states resort to closing borders as a way of reinforcing their migration policies. This book aims to dismantle this stereotypical view of migration from Africa by sharing cutting-edge research from the leading scholars in Africa and Europe. It refutes the flawed narratives that position Africa as a threat to the European societies, their economies and security, and encourages a nuanced understanding of the root causes as well as the socioeconomic factors that guide the migrants’ decision-making. With chapters written in a concise style, this book brings together the migration and border studies in an innovative way to delve into the broader societal impacts of both. It also serves to de-silence the African voices in order to offer fresh insights on African migration – a discourse dominated hitherto by the European perspective.

This book constitutes a valuable resource for research scholars and students of Border Studies, Migration Studies, Conflict and Security Studies, and Development Studies seeking specialisation in these areas. Written in an accessible style, it will also appeal to a more general public interested in gaining a fuller perspective on the African reality.

Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part 1: Critical Perspectives on Border Regimes

1.Pushing the Boundaries Forward: Shifting Notes on the Implications of European Border Control Externalisation Beyond the Sahel Region

Calvin Minfegue

2. The Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community: The EU-African Information Sharing Platform on Migration and Border Issues

Anna Moraczewska

3. Mainstreaming Intelligence and Information Technology in Border Governance: A Transcontinental Mechanism for Migration Flow

Okechukwu Richard Oji

4. Death as Policy: The EU’s Criminalisation of Solidarity With Undocumented Migrants

Rodrigo Bueno Lacy and Henk Van Houtum

5. The Euro-African Frontier Between Humanitarian Reason and the Security Imperative

Anna Casaglia

Part 2: Political Transnationalism and Policy Impact

6. African and European Legal Regimes for Intra-Continental Migration: Towards an Afro-European Integration Scheme

Tomasz Milej

7. "Solidarité en Movement" Against Homeland Authoritarism: Political Transnationalism of Europe-Based African Migrants

Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka

8. Staying Because of All Odds: Lived Experiences of African Student Migrants in Finland

Quivine Genevieve Ndomo

9. Untying the Migration Knot Through Trade: A Case Study of Nigeria

Omotomilola Ikotun and Juliet Ogbodo

10. Transnationalising Business and Innovation Ecosystems Shaping EU-Africa Relations: A Case Study of Finland and Namibia

Mika Raunio and Disney Andreas

Part 3: Alternative Framings for Europe-Africa Relations

11. Contemporary Representations of Migration in African Writing

Lena Englund

12. Re-Imagining the "Area of Freedom, Security and Justice": Europe's Security Measures Experienced by African Migrants

Laura Sumari

13. Safe European Home – Where Did You Go? On Immigration, the B/Ordered Self, and the Territorial Home

Jussi P. Laine

14. Climate Change and the Migration Conundrum: Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Felix Kwabena Donkor and Kevin Mearns

15. Unveiling the Afro-European Common Geo-Cultural Space

Olukayode A. Faleye

Closing Remarks: Expanding the Boundaries of Euro–Africa Relations

Jussi P. Laine, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi and Inocent Moyo