The world is regularly confronted on television and in other mass media with dramatic images of African boat migrants. Seemingly desperate, these Africans, most of them males, are willing to risk a perilous journey at sea, hoping for a better life in Europe. And, even worse, hundreds more are believed to die each year, swallowed up anonymously by the choppy waters off Africais coast. This book focuses on fishermen who have played a pivotal role in boat migration from Senegal to Spainis Canary Islands, advancing various reasons for the fishermenis prominent role. Besides their long history of migration, their proven experience with navigating, their familyis push and investment, their perceptions and ideologies about Europe, there is also their growing marginalization as a result of the deepening crisis in the Senegalese fishing sector and the inadequate policies of the Senegalese government that prevents them from having any bright prospects of improving their standards of living. The...

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