Dictators As Gatekeepers for Europe : Outsourcing Eu Border Controls to Africa

Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe is a detailed journalistic account of how the EU is attempting to limit mobility within the African continent as a matter of the EU's domestic policy agenda, hence the title hinting at the many agreements (with Turkey, Libya, Sudan) aimed at blocking migrants from approaching the European continent. The new "Berlin Wall" not only encircles Europe, but also generates a proliferation of militarised borders in Africa. ...To summarise, the authors argue, Europe desires protected borders and open markets. The novelty is the amount of material that this book contains about African desires and strategies, both as a continent and as single states. This, in particular, makes the work a collection of extremely valuable directions in research.

Christian Jakob has been an editor for the daily tageszeitung (taz) since 2006 and a reporter since 2014. In 2017, he won the media project award together with Simone Schlindwein and Daniél Kretschmar from the Otto Brenner Foundation for the Migration Control research project, on which this book is based. In 2016, he published 'Die Bleibenden' (Ch. Links) a history of the refugee movement in Germany. In 2018/19, he contributed to the 'Civil Society Atlas' (Bread for the World) and to the 'Atlas of Migration' (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation). In 2019 he will publish 'Angriff auf Europa' (Ch. Links) a book about the international assault on Europe from the far right with M. Gürgen, P. Hecht and S. am Orde. He can be reached on X via @chrjkb.