Introduction: conceptualising migration and labour mobility -- Capitalism, the state and labour migration -- Primitive accumulation and labour mobility: West African migration in historical perspective -- Accumulation, dispossession and labour mobility: the political economy of migration in Senegal and Mauritania -- Regulating migrant labour: clandestine emigration and the EU -- The projection of borders: the EU in Mauritania -- Keeping labour costs down: global pressures and West African migrants in Spain -- Remittances and development: why formalising remittances will not alleviate poverty -- Conclusion: unfree labour mobility between West Africa and the EU
Summary
This text provides a multi-scalar analysis of contemporary West African migration towards Europe, examining the local dynamics of a migration regime that positions itself in the tensions between broader agendas of labour mobility, development and security
