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This chapter is the book introduction. It provides information on the significance of African migration in Europe. It presents the general approach of the MAFE project (Migration between African and Europe), that adopted a dual view of African migration, taking account not only of immigration in Europe but also remigration, return and circulation, and not only destination countries but also origin countries. Finally, it presents some key results of the book.
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See e.g. the MMP (Mexican Migration Project) and the LAMP (Latin American Migration Project), which largely inspired the MAFE project.
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It is only since the 2000s that the worldwide aggregation of census data (or across a specific country group such as the OECD) has made it possible to estimate emigrant stocks in various countries. Three databases of this type are available: those of the OECD (http://www.oecd.org/els/mig/dioc.htm), the World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/global-bilateral-migration-database), and the United Nations (http://esa.un.org/MigOrigin/). These databases measure stocks of persons of a given origin living outside their country of origin (by country of birth or citizenship), but do not measure immigrants’ remigration.
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Beauchemin, C. (2018). Introduction. In: Beauchemin, C. (eds) Migration between Africa and Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69569-3_1
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