https://metropolitics.org/ Favoriser les débats et confronter les savoirs et les savoir-faire sur la ville, l'architecture et les territoires. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://metropolitics.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH20/siteon0-bf96f.png?1760617828 https://metropolitics.org/ 20 144 https://metropolitics.org/Arrests-of-People-Smugglers-in-Niger-A-Criminalization-of-Mutual-Aid-Practices.html https://metropolitics.org/Arrests-of-People-Smugglers-in-Niger-A-Criminalization-of-Mutual-Aid-Practices.html 2022-07-08T05:00:00Z text/html en Alizée Dauchy & translated by Oliver Waine Niger migrants migration criminalization of migration borders law migration crisis Global South Africa <p>From the point of view of the Northern states, international migration from the South now has its designated leaders, the networks of "smugglers", which should be dismantled. Based on an ethnographic survey conducted in Niger, the author shows the lability of this role and the perverse effects of a blind repression of mutual aid. <br class='autobr' /> Long ignored by European migration policies, Niger has emerged in official discourse as a transit country for West African populations heading for Europe since 2015</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-From-the-Field-15-.html" rel="directory">From the Field</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Niger-+.html" rel="tag">Niger</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-migrants,1962-+.html" rel="tag">migrants</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-migration-+.html" rel="tag">migration</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-criminalization-of-migration-+.html" rel="tag">criminalization of migration</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-borders-+.html" rel="tag">borders</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-law-+.html" rel="tag">law</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-migration-crisis-+.html" rel="tag">migration crisis</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Global-South-+.html" rel="tag">Global South</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Africa-+.html" rel="tag">Africa</a>