Migration: looking away to avoid responsibility

• European policies and the structural crisis in Africa are the root causes of current migration flows toward Europe.
• Analyzing migration without accounting for Africa's extreme poverty and volatility results in biased, insufficient conclusions.

Key Drivers of Migration

• Climate Crisis: Rising global temperatures, extreme weather events, and ecosystem degradation are threatening livelihoods across Africa.
• Chronic Conflicts: Persistent military tensions and instability are driving massive internal and external population displacement.
• External Debt: Heavy debt-servicing obligations force governments to prioritize creditors over public resources, depriving populations of basic survival needs.
• Western Extractivism: Corporations and Western governments prioritize the acquisition of raw materials for the 'green and digital transition' under advantageous terms.
• International Failures: Ineffective climate compensation for the Global South and the repurposing of development aid as a tool for commercial interests rather than humanitarian support.

Implications

• Ignoring these structural factors is hypocritical; it serves to maintain corporate and institutional profits while evading responsibility for the crisis.