Dr Jaiteh
It all the question of survival. With the depletion of fish stock, Fishermen turn into lucrative bussiness of human trafficking. Migration of any forms be it skill and unskill human capital is a continuum of our underdevelopment and dependent on the western world. We all known xenohobia and racist politics about issues of immigration in Europe at the moment. Decent political parties which use to stand for social justice, unequality and rights immigrant have now driven to embrace far right ideologies bacause of fear of immigrants taking over. Back home with the question of survival cause by hopelessness, despair, poverty and failed political system the people because ignorance have no joy to die in the sea or reach the shores of canary island. We can blame the people but the solution to this deadly migration in addressing inequality cause by corrupt and dictatorial government. Every sector in our country that use to be a means of sustainable livelihood has collapse.
Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
It looks like we are still in same mindset. Africa as source of raw,
unprocessed, under-valued produce. It never worked for Petroleum, cocoa
or groundnut, why do we think it will work for human resources? What
will those fishermen do other than speed up an already dying industry? I
thought it is the Lebu who now finds it more rewarding to sail the
Atlantic with human cargo instead of fish?
It is my position that for Africa to benefit in this new deal, it must
be able to dictate the quality of produce (in this case labor) it sells
consumers. We must be able to export trained professionals (engineers,
doctors and nurses) -thats what US and Europe's aging populations need-
and not fishermen or strawberry pickers!
. Malanding
Courtesy Daily Observer
Spain to grant 2,700 work permits to Senegal
Written by Abdoulie John
Nov 13, 2007 at 05:49 AM
According to the Sunday edition of Le Soleil, Senegalese State owned
newspaper, Senegal and Spain sealed an agreement, on Friday, granting
some 2,700 work permits to Senegalese seeking jobs in Spain.
The state-owned newspaper indicated that this is part of a deal aimed
at stemming the wave of illegal migration to Europe.
Signed in Dakar by the Spanish Labour Minister, Jesus Caldera and
Senegalese Interior Minister, Ousmane Ngom, the agreement will pave the
way for 2,000 workers to be employed by next year in Spanish fishing
boats after receiving specialised training at centres back home funded
by Spain.
The remaining 700 will be employed in the agricultural sector,
especially in strawberry farming. As the epicentre of clandestine
migration in Western Africa, this agreement will help to curb the
phenomenon gradually.
It could be recalled that thousands of people, each year, attempt to
make it to Spain illegally on barely seaworthy boats. An unknown number
have died at sea, while thousands of others are repatriated.
Senegal and the European Union have in recent months undertaken sea
patrols against illegal immigration from Africa under an exercise led by
the European border agency, Frontex.
The surveillance has seen a marked drop in arrivals in the Spanish
islands of the Canary, located off the coast of Morocco, which have been
a magnet in recent years for mainly sub-Saharan immigrants aspiring to
reach Europe.
More than 31,200 illegal immigrants arrived in the Canaries last year,
more than tripling the previous annual record and overwhelming the
island chain's authorities. But this year the arrival figures stand at
around 8,200 arrivals since January.
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