I was doubly pleased to see this report up at the BBC. Not only does it break with the "immigrants: string 'em up" tone endemic to British journalism on the subject, but it makes direct connections between the food system and migration.

Pape Barro is another young man who sees no future in Senegal.

When we met, he was sealing up the cracks in an old fishing boat, preparing it, coincidentally, for his third attempt to reach the Canaries.

For years, he and his colleagues had been making a modest but respectable living in their small, open boats and hand-cast nets. ... read more »

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Posted on 2 December, 2006 - 13:47