Local perceptions on Migration Control and Local Economy in the Kantchari-Makalondi Borderland

People & roles

Host: Kinyera, Paddy Banya
Guest(s): Donko, Kamal
Sound engineer: Kummer, Anne-Sophie

Origins & context

Title: Local perceptions on Migration Control and Local Economy in the Kantchari-Makalondi Borderland
Language: English
Podcast series: On the go - Sprint Lectures on African mobilities
Date: 2022

Rights & access

Extent: 36 minutes, 3 seconds

Identifiers & sources

has URL: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_4-Public-engagement_-engagement1/Podcasts/WS-21_22folder/8/index.html

Further details

Episode number: 8

Full text

[music] Speaker 1: On the go sprint lectures on African mobilities podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to this sprint lecture that begins the winter semester. Our guest today is Doctor Kamal Donko who is going to give a talk on local perception on migration control and local economy in Kankari and Makalondi borderlands. Doctor Kamal is a former doctoral student at Pictus and also he did his master's studies in the cultural environment in Africa at the University of Cologne. One of his very recent publications is a joint paper with Professor Uli Beisel and Martin Dünchfleck entitled Migration Control, the Local Economy and Violence in the Burkina Faso-Niger Borderland. The paper today is part of a project actually that Kamal and Martin are working on between the borderland between Niger and Burkina Faso. So without much ado, I'll invite Kamal. Speaker 2: Hi everyone and welcome to my presentation. Adi has already introduced me so I will just start. In my presentation today I would like to report on local perceptions on migration control and local economy in the Kankari-Makalondi borderland. The border crossing was identified as a strategic location of interest by international organizations for migration. The subjects can be looked at under five headings. Headings. I will give you an overview of the EU external borders in West Africa. Next I will focus on criminalization of mobility, how people view and then I will discuss its impacts on the local economy. I go on now to highlight what I see as violent response to criminalisation of mobility and the emergence of poverty. So European Union policies have shaped the evolution of migration motivation patterns and structure across West African states. From slave trade to colonial times, countries within European Union have influenced who, where and for how long people in West Africa moved. This influence continued in post-colonial West African states with the reduced available mobility options for… Read the full text about 3,716 words