Mission Accomplished? The Deadly Effects Of Border Control In Niger

Report

Original Resource

Authors	Ahmet Tchilouta Rhoumour, Border Forenscis
Description	Investigative report on the relationship between border practices, spatial changes in migrant trajectories, and the increased danger of crossing Niger's Sahara desert following the implementation of Law 2015-36. Given the methodological challenges posed by the existing literature on desert deaths and disappearances, the report developed innovative geospatial analysis and remote sensing methods.
Year	2023

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

Transversal consequences
- Migrant health and care
- Spatial consequences
Legal-political consequences
- Crime

Migration governance

Governance actors
Migration policy and law
- Border control
- Policies on mobility
Governance processes
- Criminalisation
- Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

Migration research and theory
- Research-policy relations

Disciplines

Disciplines

Methods

Other
- Cartographic
- Action research
Qualitative research
Quantitative research
- Correlation and causal analysis
- Quantitative text analysis
Types of study
- Multi-sited

Geographies

UN Countries
- Niger

Experts

Rhoumour AHMET TCHILOUTA

https://www.pacte-grenoble.fr/membres/rhoumou...

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Bringing migration research under one roof.

Funded by Led by

This project was made possible thanks to funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Ares(2017) 5627812-77012.

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