[BRIEF NOTE] Senegal and Migration

[rfmcdonald]

Co-blogger Edward Hugh has a couple of interesting posts up on immigration to Spain, the first (at Demography Matters) examining the reasons why Moroccans are no longer emigrating in large numbers, the second studying the new phenomenon of mass emigration from Senegal to Spain. Brief version: Morocco's population is aging quickly enough and the Moroccan state interested enough to slow down the outmigration, while neither of these factors operate in the case of Senegal. In any case, it's unsurprising that Senegal is as prominent a sender of immigrants to Europe as it is, not given Senegal's long relationship with Europe--it's the only region of sub-Saharan Africa that I know of that was a participant, if not an actor in Europe's 1848 Revolutions, for instance.