Dictators as Gatekeepers: Outsourcing EU border controls to Africa - Softcover

Migrants die of thirst in the Sonoran Desert, drown in the Mediterranean, are murdered by gangs in Libya and Mexico, and disappear forever in doomed journeys that leave no trace.  When we speak of immigration policies in rich countries today, we are really speaking about complicity in mass murder.   This study brilliantly exposes how so-called liberal governments in Europe are outsourcing the violent repression of migrants to authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and local tyrants in Africa. —Mike Davis, Writer, historian, activist and author many books, Distinguished Emeritus Professor, University of California, Riverside

This book makes a depressing reading for any concerned African by clearly exposing how often European leaders and opinion makers continue to portray African migration with a mix of disdain, fear, racism and backward arguments. A unique contribution. — Prof. Carlos Lopes, Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town and African Union High Representative for Partnerships with Europe. 

The book, based on extensive research by the Taz reporter and the Taz correspondent, reads like a thriller that brings hope for a happy ending. But this is not in sight, according to Jakob and Schlindwein. (...) The book makes it clear that anyone and everyone can know about the implications of European foreclosure policy.
Katja Herzberg, Neues Deutschland

Not only do the authors succeed - in no-frills language - in achieving a successful overview of how Europe prevents irregular migration and what consequences this has for the people affected. They also show how discourses around migration have shifted.
Benjamin Breitegger, FALTER

Anyone who wants to understand how the European Union is trying to stem the influx of refugees from Africa must read the book »dictators as bouncers in Europe«!
APA - Austria Press Agency

The presentation by Christian Jakob and Simone Schlindwein is carefully, disarmingly fact-rich and so up-to-date ...
Günter Beyer, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Simone Schlindwein and Christian Jakob show how Europe's policy helps repel refugees from Africa, supports dictators, divides the continent and ignores the political and cultural conditions in Africa.
ARD / ttt, titles, theses, temperaments

The book »Dictators as Bouncers of Europe« is highly readable as a well-researched book and has so far been the best book on this subject in detail.
Jacqueline Andres, Wissenschaft und Frieden

The USA is divided around the wall President Trump wants to build along the Mexican border. Europe has long answered this question at its own southern border: put up that wall but don’t make it look like one. Today the EU is trying to close many deals as it can with African states, making it harder and harder for refugees to find protection and more dangerous for labor migrants to reach places where they can earn an income. But this is not the only effect: the more Europe tries to control migration from Africa, the harder it becomes for many Africans to move freely through their own continent, even within their own countries. Increasingly, the billions Europe pays for migration control is declared as official development assistance (ODA), more widely known as ‘development aid, supposedly for poverty relief and humanitarian assistance. The EU is spending billions buying African leaders as gatekeepers, including dictators and suspected war criminals. And the real beneficiaries are the military and technology corporations involved in the implementation.