Uncertainties and ways ahead

Abstract

Preparing this presentation I came across an article published by the New York Times last December describing the long trip hundreds of thousands of Africans are making every year from different countries to Europe. The article, called “A road on fire for Africans”, describes the nightmare they go through crossing deserts, borders, and violent places in the hands of the actors of the “migration industry”: drivers, smugglers, money changers, corrupted police officers, sex workers and the long list of people that “live off the men and women on the move”.