Essays about: "Gambia migration"

Found 5 essays containing the words Gambia migration.

  1. 1. Surveillance, Survival, and Incentives to Stay: Three Approaches to Governing ‘Irregular’ Migration from the Gambia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Kira Twisttmann Askholm; [2022]
    Keywords : Migration governance; The Gambia; Irregular migration; Governmentality; Implementers of migration management; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Gambian migrants have been amongst the top-nationalities arriving to European shores by ‘irregular’ means. While ‘irregular’ migration is often extremely risky and dangerous, the Gambian government has only been limitedly engaged in governing this migration. Instead, several non-state actors have stepped in. READ MORE

  3. 2. European Union Emergency Trust Fund; A Case Study of The Gambia

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Kitabu Bangura; [2019]
    Keywords : EUTF; backway; remittances; development; aid;

    Abstract : This thesis is a case study that examines the impacts of the European Union Emergency Fund(EUTF) in The Gambia. Using a combination of the Neoclassical theory, New Economics ofLabor Migration theory and Migration Network theory this thesis investigates the impact theEUTF has had on irregular migration in The Gambia locally known as the “back way” to Europe. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Back Way To Europe & Everything in Between : A Study of Migration Culture in The Gambia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Etnologi

    Author : Aida Jobarteh; [2017]
    Keywords : migration; The backway; The Gambia; Migration Trajectories; Migration Culture; Gambia migration; Hope; Vital Conjunctures;

    Abstract : Crossing the Sahara to reach Libya for the purpose of onward migration across the Mediterranean to Italy is what in Gambia is called “The Back Way”. The aim of this study is to examine the ambitions and reasons behind a migratory project from The Gambia to Europe. READ MORE

  5. 4. Looking for a Greener Pasture: Exploring the Narratives of Gambian Clandestine Migrants

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Fredrika Uggla; [2015]
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    Abstract : Uggla, Fredrika (2015). Looking for a Greener Pasture: Exploring the Narratives of Gambian Clandestine Migrants. Human Geography, advanced level, master thesis for master exam in Human Geography, 30 ECTS credits. Supervisors: Karen Haandrikman and Natasha Webster. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Back way to Europe : A case study about why young men in Gambia are prepared to risk their lives to get to Europe

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Frida Strand Jagne; [2014]
    Keywords : Gambia; Young men; Back way; Migration; Irregular migration;

    Abstract : Irregular migration is one of our times challenge and the news about migrants dying in the Mediterranean Sea seems to be more and more common these days. African migrants are risking their lives migrating by routes through the desert on trucks packed with migrants to get to Libya; this route is called the back way. READ MORE