Resumen de Irregular Senegalese emigration to Spain. Issues, causes and current situation
In recent years, irregular migration, which is forbidden and highlycontrolled, has increasingly attracted the attention of numerousresearchers: sociologists, geographers, demographers, politicalscientists, and jurists. This is still the case today, following themany attempts of would-be migrants, some of them boardingpirogues from the African coast to reach a country close to theEuropean continent, others aboard trucks and pick-ups to maketheir journey across the Sahara Desert. These various, somewhatdesperate attempts are most often reported in the local and in-ternational press, revealing a growing worldwide media coverageof the issue. It is this form of irregular migration, carried out by seain dugout canoes, that our paper will attempt to explore. Particular attention is paid to irregular emigration by sea from Senegal toSpain. The first part of our presentation will focus on the issuesinvolved in this irregular migration to Spain. In the second part, wewill diagnose the various economic, social, political, and culturalcauses behind departures from Senegalese shores. More precisely, we will try to provide some answers to the question: Whydo young people take the path of irregular migration to Senegal ?
