African Maghreb and Sub-Saharan immigration flows towards Spain

• Autores: Virgilio Gonzalez
• Localización: Exedra: Revista Científica, ISSN-e 1646-9526, Nº. Extra 3, 1, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Diversity Comunication and coexistence), págs. 55-74
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo (pdf)
• Resumen

  • The African continent finds the solution for its demographic stress by regularly and continuously expulsing a great amount of emigrants towards the south European frontiers. Because of geographic reason, Spain and Italy are common chosen destinies.

    Each year, thousands of African people cross the Mediterranean sea in search of a better life in Europe. The most common transportation are fable and dangerous boats called �pateras�. When winter comes, and also during Spring and Autumn, the sea storms reduce this human traffic and then a land path is chosen. From subsaharian countries an immense flow of anonymous peoples march in the direction of Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish enclaves in Morocco, a trampoline to Europe. This article presents and discusses these routes of clandestine immigration and the problematic and complex situation that it entails.