Chapter 3 - West African migration to Mediterranean countries and agricultural work

Abstract

The number of international migrants is increasing year after year, reaching up to 258 million in 2017 (UN-DESA, 2017a). Like all other continents, Africa is a place of significant movements, even if the absence of recent national data for several countries does not always enable to draw a precise statistical portrait of the phenomenon. Nonetheless, the existing information allows identifying trends and putting into perspective, certain fears in international public opinion as to the extent and direction of migratory flows originating in Africa.