North African States as Agents of Europe’s Border Securitization: Tragic Ordeals of Young Refugee and Asylum Seekers from Africa

Abstract

The current trend in international migration increasingly favors young adults traveling as irregular and independent migrants. Sylvia Wong, the United Nation’he current trend in international migration increasingly favors young adul, reveals that young adults now represent the largest proportion of global migrantseling as irregular and independent migrants. Sylvia Wong, the United Nationperiences, including: exploitations, torture and death, border restrictions, and deportation. The surge in global mobility of individuals implies that fear of socio-economic inundation is compelling industrialized nations to set restrictive border policies that often reject certain migrant bodies while permitting of others. Desperate youth migrants from the developing world and, in this context, irregular migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa (who are headed to Europe) are increasingly impelled to resort to more hazardous transit routes to reach their destinations. This chapter uses anti-racist theory to deconstruct the push and pull paradigm of transnational migration. Using narratives of migrants headed to Europe) are increasingly impelled to resort to more hazardous transit routes to reach their destinations. This chapter uses anti-racist theory to deconsdel tends to solely fault the migrants’ states of origin for the woes of the flow, a position that both invisibilizes and infantilizes the migrants by negating their agency, identity, and resilience; and projects the industrialized world (receiving countries) as innocent victims of social inundation. In this decolonizing perspective, the chapter accentuates social insecurity and migrantssocialmpelled to resort to more hazardous transit routes to reach their destinations. This chapter uses anti-racist overcoming the unforgiving transit barriers in their spiritual identity while revealing how the receiving states induce the flow through their foreign policies. The chapter concludes by suggesting ways to reduce attendant tragedies while harnessing the trend to benefit all stakeholders in the process.