This study tries to achieve a more empirically and quantitatively founded understanding of the nature, scale and recent evolution of irregular West African migr

The media and prevailing policy discourses convey an increasingly apocalyptic image of the massive outflows of desperate Africans fleeing poverty and war at hom

Trapped inside lorries or huddled aboard unseaworthy boats, irregular African migrants make for troubling headlines in western media, fueling fever pitch fears