Uptick in African Refugees Expected to Continue

By Philippe Fargues

Philippe Fargues is the founding Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is a sociologist and demographer. He has been Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, a senior researcher at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris, a visiting profes­sor at Harvard, and the Director of the Centre for Economic Legal and Social Studies (CEDEJ) in Cairo.

Irregular migration from Africa to Europe is increasing. As Africa’s population continues to grow, the European Union (EU) will need to figure out how to deal with what is expected to be even more African migrants in the coming years. The Cipher Brief’s Kaitlin Lavinder spoke with Philippe Fargues, founding Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Italy, about migration patterns, now and in the future, and the EU response.

The Cipher Brief: Paint a picture for me of migration from Africa to Europe over the past few years. Are there a lot of migrants? Which countries are they coming from and going to? 

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