Migration and Family Life Between Congo and Europe

Beauchemin, Cris; Nappa, Jocelyn; Mazzucato, Valentina; Schoumaker, Bruno; Mangalu, José

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69569-3_9

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“…Migration is a significant, complex and growing global phenomenon influenced by geographical, socio-economic and political factors. 1 Since 2015, European migration policies have been influenced by realities and perception of migration at its southern borders. 2 Over 128 000 irregular arrivals of migrants coming mainly from African and Asian countries to Europe via the Mediterranean migration routes were recorded in 2019.…”

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Health and illness in migrants and refugees arriving in Europe: analysis of the electronic Personal Health Record system

Zenner¹,

Requena-Méndez

Schillinger

et al. 2022

Journal of Travel Medicine

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Background: The electronic Personal Health(ePHR) Record is a health information system that registers health data on newly arriving migrants and was implemented in eight European countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia). This is a cross-sectional study aimed to describe the health problems and health status of all migrants attended at health clinics as part of the health assessment programme established in the reception centres(2016–2019). Methods: Data were collected on demographics, clinical and laboratory findings and diagnostics performed, including medical records. We classified all diseases using pre-specified algorithms according to information on prespecified variables from the ePHR questionnaire, ICD-10 codes, positive laboratory findings or review of medical records. Crude proportions were calculated and odds ratios estimated using logistic regression modelling. Results: The ePHR dataset contained a total of 19 564 clinical episodes in 14 436 individuals, recorded between January 2016 to October 2019. Most individuals (75%) were refugees or asylum seekers (22%) from 92 different nationalities. There were 2531/19564(12,9%) infectious diseases episodes reported during the study period, being 1283/2531(50.7%) of them pharyngo-tonsillitis, 529(20.9%) scabies, 158(6.2%) viral hepatitis, 156(6.1%) lower respiratory infections. There were 2462(17.1%) individuals with non-communicable diseases reported; including 821(5.7%) cardiovascular diseases, 1183(8.2%) neurological condition, 644(4.5%) Diabetes mellitus and 212(1.5%) kidney disease cases. Having Diabetes Mellitus (adjusted OR 3.3,[95%CI 2.7–4.1],p < 0.001), and neurological disorders (aOR 1.8,[95%CI 1.4–2.2], p < 0.001) were associated with cardiovascular disorders in the multivariable logistic regression model. Mental health problems were reported in 641/14436(4.4%) individuals and were associated with increasing age. Furthermore, 610 episodes of acute injuries were reported among 585/14436(4.1%) people, 517(88.4%) of them in men, (p < 0.001). Conclusions. The ePHR is a valuable tool to efficiently collect health-related data to better address migrant health issues. We described a mostly healthy population with many acute infectious disease episodes particularly in children, but also with significant number of chronic conditions and less frequent injuries or mental health problems.

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Health and illness in migrants and refugees arriving in Europe: analysis of the electronic Personal Health Record system

Zenner¹,

Requena-Méndez

Schillinger

et al. 2022

Journal of Travel Medicine

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“…In fact, the latter continue to proliferate, as the latest projects made by Djibril attest, precisely to circumvent controls, repression, detentions, and deportations. So, if mobility in West Africa "is engrained in the history, daily life[,] and experiences of people" (De Bruijn, Van Dijk, and Foeken 2001, 1; see also Beauchemin 2018;Bilger and Kraler 2005;Fall 2016), what would characterize our age would not be so much the movements on a global scale, but obstacles to the mobility of a large part of the population (Carling 2002).…”

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It's Only a Matter of Hope: Rethinking Migration Decision-Making in Contemporary Senegal; Among Lived Immobilities, Development Interventions, and Social Inequalities

Zingari,

Riccio,

Sakho

et al. 2023

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This article stems from ethnographic research conducted in three Senegalese contexts: Louga, Diaobé, and the Saloum Islands. The underemployment of young people, deagrarianization, and other phenomena are intertwined with a growing criminalization of displacement and an irregularization of international migration. By debunking the idea that the processes of deciding to migrate are linear, we propose an alternative understanding of what choice means in the context of contemporary migration. We are not asserting that migrant agency is absent, but we argue that uncertainty is often the norm, rather than the exception, and that we need a more dynamic and sophisticated notion of choice as a lens for understanding why and how people migrate. The relationships among mobility-restriction regimes, development interventions, and the individualized way in which people represent their lived (im)mobilities affect migration choices in all three contexts. For those we encountered, it is the present that looks uncertain and the future that offers hope.

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“…Migration is an important part of West African societies, including in Senegal and Guinea. While African migration has been largely intraregional for decades, a spike in migration occurred in recent years, mainly towards Europe (Beauchemin et al 2018). Various sources indicate an increase in migration from both Senegal and Guinea in the mid‐2010s (see e.g.…”

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Risky journeys – Risk and decision‐making among potential irregular migrants in Senegal and Guinea

Tjaden

2022

International Migration

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In response to well‐documented harms inflicted on irregular migrants attempting to travel from West Africa to Europe, various actors have scaled up information interventions to counter misinformation by smuggling networks and facilitate safe migration decisions. Many interventions include information on the potential dangers involved in migration. However, there is a striking lack of empirical evidence assessing a key assumption of campaign effectiveness, that is the relationship between risk perceptions and the decision to migrate irregularly. This study contributes an empirical account based on two independently collected surveys in Senegal and Guinea. Consistent with rational choice theories on migration decisions under uncertainty, the results suggest that higher risk perceptions are consistently and strongly associated with reduced intentions to migrate irregularly. Yet, the explanatory power of risk perceptions depends on context and is generally less important than structural and socio‐economic factors.

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Migration and Family Life Between Congo and Europe

Cited by 7 publications

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Health and illness in migrants and refugees arriving in Europe: analysis of the electronic Personal Health Record system

Health and illness in migrants and refugees arriving in Europe: analysis of the electronic Personal Health Record system

It's Only a Matter of Hope: Rethinking Migration Decision-Making in Contemporary Senegal; Among Lived Immobilities, Development Interventions, and Social Inequalities

Risky journeys – Risk and decision‐making among potential irregular migrants in Senegal and Guinea

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