Jakob / Schlindwein Dictators as Gatekeepers

Outsourcing EU border ?controls to Africa
1., New & updated translation of Diktatoren als Türsteher Europas: Wie die EU ihre Grenzen nach Afrika v
ISBN: 978-1-988832-28-9
Verlag: Daraja Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

The USA is divided around the wall President Trump wants to build along the Mexican border. Europe has long answered this question at its own southern border: put up that wall but don’t make it look like one. Today the EU is trying to close many deals as it can with African states, making it harder and harder for refugees to find protection and more dangerous for labor migrants to reach places where they can earn an income. But this is not the only effect: the more Europe tries to control migration from Africa, the harder it becomes for many Africans to move freely through their own continent, even within their own countries. Increasingly, the billions Europe pays for migration control is declared as official development assistance (ODA), more widely known as ‘development aid, supposedly for poverty relief and humanitarian assistance. The EU is spending billions buying African leaders as gatekeepers, including dictators and suspected war criminals. And the real beneficiaries are the military and technology corporations involved in the implementation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jakob, Christian

Schlindwein, Simone

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The rediscovery of Africa
Part I: The Closure of the Borders: Our partners: Suspected war criminals; Review: A little story of our bouncers; "Diplomacy: Monsieur Vimont's last mission - the unification with Africa"
Part II: The role models: "The Agreement with Turkey: The Six-billion-Euro Deal"; Israel's stores: The goods man; The deportation Domino: Back to Los!
Part III: A continent in motion: The tugs: a state-Mafia complex; "Migration:" Karibu Sana "- Welcome culture on Kisuaheli"
Part IV: Europe's new borders in Africa; Free movement: Schengen for us, Fences in the Sahel
Deportations: Then he is just Nigerian; Development Assistance: " We propose a mix of positive and negative incentives "; "Europe's Warden: Why Frontex knows no borders"; Technology: New Border Facilities - A Subsidy Program for Europe's Weaponsmiths; The Mediterranean: dying where others spend their holidays
Part V: The opening of the markets: Economic promotion in the service of migration control: The "Merkel Plan" with Africa; Free trade: Euro-African milk coffee
Conclusion: Europe's dreams, Africa's dreams

Über Autor(innen)

Schlindwein, Simone
Born in 1980, she studied East European studies, from 2006 to 2008. She was Moscow correspondent for the Spiegel, but since 2008 she has been living in Uganda and is the correspondent of the German "tageszeitung" (taz.de) for the Great Lakes region: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan. In 2016 she was awarded the journalists' prize "Die lange Atem" for research on the Rwandan Hutu militia FDLR in DRC and the corresponding book "Crime Scene Congo - Trial in Germany". Together with Christian Jakob and Deniél Kretschmar of the German Otto Brenner Foundation, she was awarded the Media Project Prize in 2017 for the migration project "Migration Control", on whose research tDictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU border controls to Africa is based.
http://simoneschlindwein.blogspot.de/

Jakob, Christian
Born in 1979, Christian studied sociology, economics, philosophy in Bremen and Milan, and Global Studies in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Delhi. From 2006 to 2014 he served as editor of the daily newspaper Taz.de, after which he has worked there as reporter. Together with Simone Schlindwein and Daniél Kretschmar, he was received an award for the migration project "Migration Control" from the German Otto Brenner Foundation in 2017. is based on his research. He can be contacted on Twitter: @chrjkb.