More than 30,000 migrants have reached the Canary Islands in the Atlantic this year. Many of them come from Senegal.
Tailor Abdoulaye is also keen to make the dangerous crossing, but he’s still having some doubts. Friends are telling him not to go, that it’s too risky. The journey takes many days out on the high seas to avoid western African nations’ coastguard patrols. Many don’t survive; their ramshackle boats sink or they drift off course and die of thirst. In cemeteries on the Canary Islands, there are more and more graves of unknown victims. The smallest island in the archipelago has taken in an especially high number of migrants from Africa. Mayor Juan Miguel Padron says his island is struggling to cope with the growing number of people who leave their homes searching for a better life. A report by Tessa Clara Walther.
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Thank you for making this documentary , there is so much people don’t know and I hope it will help growing some awareness .
So the lucky charm couldn’t help him make money n live better life in his country but can help him travel safely
What a serious scam
I love the way they love their mothers makes me feel happy ❤
people have an innate right of movement and immigration. Humans have always moved about the globe for all reasons. I dont see why it should stop in this modern age. Most europeans who moved to US in the 19th century and before were economic refugees with the exception of african slaves.
wish all the self-entitled privileged people in these comments get to experience hardship like this one day so they will learn some humility
Lucky charm! 😬 You need Jesus.
Stop this madness! Spanish people are crazy!
Going on a boat by sea is the most selfish thing you can do to your family and to humanity.
With ALL The Tremendous Costs Associated with dealing with illegal African migrants entering Europe on the high seas; Perhaps The EU should implement a program; whereby the EU setups a Monitoring body/organization in ALL Sub-Saharan African countries; Biometric register ALL Africans between Ages 17 through 40 at each Sub-county level & provide a $1,000 monthly stipend to each African between Ages 17 through 40, on condition they agree NOT to migrate to Europe illegally.
Europe and the US should make videos to show the reality of miserable life there. Racism, unemployment, violence, poverty, and desperation is rampant in those countries. The economic fantasy is fallable. Many African nations have more hope for the future, if the politicians seriously combat against the corruption.
😂😂😂😂you believe maradou,
Just think about it, white people invaded Africa by boat. Now Africans are invading Europe by boat for the same reasons Europeans invaded African, "to make their lives better"
These people need to industrialize their countries. In most ways this is easier and safer than 150 years ago, but in some ways it’s significantly harder. They’ve got to do it since most of the world does not want to live a traditional subsistence based agricultural life. We should assist them with funding low interest loans for environmentally friendly electricity generation and more.
I feel no sympathy for these European nations. Colonialism/ Racism/Neo-colonialism has lead to these conditions in African nations. Yes there is heavy domestic corruption impacting economic growth but when European leaders support these leaders what can the people do? If Europe wants to stop migrants invest in Africa and support true democracy. The Chinese government has been encroaching in Africa and we don’t a non-democratic state to have too many allies.
How can all of us from Europe enter Africa freely but they are dying on the way trying to get get here…stop this inhumanity!!
People always searching for a better life … good luck to this man
😒🤦🏻♀️
Such sad situation for any immigrant out in the world. We all have to suffer one way or another. 😢
How much did you pay for the boat? Could have invested it in Senegal. You negros think that money grows on trees in Europe.
For a poor family, the guy is pretty well fed….
did he make it???? I hope DW paid the guy from the money they made from the 44,000 views they got on the video.
Population control is needed in the third world. Chinese rule is better. Democracy does not work for the third world. People need to be disciplined.
Economics really amazes me! Why do some economies do so much better than other even sharing almost the same geographic region and resources? Is it even possible to eradicate poverty? And how exactly does one quantify wealth? The presence of poorer people in his/her immediate surroundings?
Bro is equipped with magical water and an amulet, waiting to go to burden social welfare system of europe to help fund his family's renovation plans, abandoning them just to visit occasionally with tax-payer money. WHAT A MESS!
We sufferer in foreign lands so our mothers will live good back home
Send back to spawn area
All humans are migrants 😊😊!!!
Just keep having more babies, that will solve the problem,
Return to Sender before Europe falls!!
It is really harmful to current refugees and those who may be refugees in the future to label all these thousands of economic migrants as refugees when they clearly are not.
If they applied for asylum under the refugee convention they would be refused, especially with the information in the video showing their home countries as safe.
Europe being overwhelmed with economic migrants not only depletes resources available for refugees, but also causes a backlash against asylum for real refugees, possibly with changes in government policy. This is a tragedy and catastrophe.
There are in fact many thousands in African countries who are experiencing genocidal persecution who do deserve protection. But they were not mentioned in this video.
No entry level job in Europe is gonna pay enough for someone to send money back home to their family
If you don't close your borders and stop allowing thousands of people into the Canary Islands it will "sink" itself. Over population, crime, gangs etc etc Some times you need to look after yourself…
Finally a documentary with some nuance on this issue. Most times its made to look like EVERY young man in ALL African countries is just waiting for their turn to get on a boat to Europe.
No matter how you look at it, the majority are opportunistic illegal economic migrants and they will cause the EU immigration policy and EU itself to collapse. Bad politics result in bitter end of EU. This will be one of the reasons EU countries to split back the way they were before. EU fallout will begin soon
Why do coast guards don’t turn them back at leat won’t let enter waters ( boarders) ??? This is insane… learn from Poland for example… put army in border control with guns if needed , message shout be clear no ILLEGAL Immigrants , if you want to come do it legally and proper way
These are not refugees. Deutsche Welle is using a very outdated term.
I work for a software company based in Spain but I live in Turkey. They asked me to move there. I have been gathering documents, paying for visa etc. for the past month. Then I have to go to Spanish embassy and have an interview. So it takes 3-4 months to get a work permit and a visa. Yet Spain also accepts people who arrive there via boat with no documentation. The system is broken.
The Russian flag wavers running to the West again
DW and the dacaying German government insist on naming these invaders "refugees", although it is more than obvious that this is a highly organized organization. Why don't the German government properly invested in these countries? These is an invasion that wlll soon disrupt the whole European civilization.
Opportunists 👎🏻
EU should welcome them as they welcomed European on their lands.
Топите суда в море
Europe needs to close its borders. Simple as that.