Europe And Africa

Many places in Africa are known for their history of migrations, some were built upon distinctive rules brought from outsiders who constructed colonies in these lands, such as the French. Africansocieties adjust to the behavior of the colonials in order to have a better economy for example the Soninke society mentioned in the text written by Gunvor Jonsson, “Migration Aspirations and Immobilityin a Malian Soninke Village”.
The Soninke society was known as having migration in their bloods, its modern migrations were linked to European commercial penetration in Africa. This meant that assoon as foreign powers such as the European decided to expand their commerce in African lands Soninke habitants, were not actually forced to migrate, but decided to do so because they were dependent tothe European strategies to raise their economy. As consequence, in order to migrate and work for them they rely on the European migration policies and many historic moments mentioned in this textprove this.
As soon Soninke migrated to where the European where they started working for example as labor migrants, serving as indigenous or sailors for the French Navy on the Senegal River, everyjob they took was after to which the French requested, Soninke were disposed to serve the French whenever they needed so. After the Second World War, France opened its border for foreign laborers toreconstruct the war destructions. Immigration increased, especially by Sub Saharan Africans. Soninke were the French favorites, they were the 85% of the Sub Saharan immigrants in France (pg. 6 Jonsson).When the French allowed immigrants to access their land this was a rule a policy in other words, they were now welcome to migrate to their land, Soninke migrated to assist their requirements.However, “…the French government took measures to stop the arrival of new foreign workers. Illegal arrivals increased and in 1976, the French State started to repatriate irregular immigrants, first by...