Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2022.2186599

Noam Chen-Zion

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Since the beginning of the 21st century, Europe has seen a substantial increase in undocumented economic migration from West Africa. Dominant public discourse on this migration wave fails to identify its underlying drivers. This article analyses contemporary migration within the structure of modern imperialism, demonstrating how European extraction of wealth and resources from West Africa fosters migration. Imperial expropriation is made concrete through a case study of Senegalese fishers now living in Badalona, Spain. Drawing on their life histories and situating their trajectories within the broader context of Senegalese economic history, this article argues that they were pushed to migrate largely due to industrial fishing fleets draining West African marine life. In Spain, a regime of illegality has coerced these Senegalese fishers into highly exploitative sectors, to the tremendous benefit of Spanish capital. Their ceaseless struggle to work under such violent conditions can only be explained by the need to sustain their impoverished families in Senegal.

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陷入欧洲的网:生态破坏和塞内加尔移民到西班牙

自21世纪初以来，来自西非的无证经济移民在欧洲大幅增加。关于这一移民浪潮的主流公共话语未能确定其潜在的驱动因素。本文分析了现代帝国主义结构下的当代移民，展示了欧洲对西非财富和资源的攫取如何促进了移民。通过对现在居住在西班牙巴达洛纳的塞内加尔渔民的案例研究，使帝国征用具体化。根据他们的生活史，并将他们的轨迹置于塞内加尔经济史的更大背景下，本文认为，他们被迫迁移的主要原因是工业捕鱼船队耗尽了西非的海洋生物。在西班牙，一个非法政权强迫这些塞内加尔渔民进入高度剥削的部门，使西班牙资本获得巨大利益。他们在如此暴力的条件下不断努力工作，唯一的解释是需要维持他们在塞内加尔的贫困家庭。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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3.00

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7.70%

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.