Description générale

Le projet de recherche MAFE est une initiative de grande ampleur dont l'objectif est d'étudier les migrations entre l'Afrique subsaharienne et l'Europe. - Attention, la documentation des enquêtes MAFE est en langue anglaise. - __________ The MAFE project is a major research initiative focused on migration between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. It brings together ten European and African research centres working on international migration. In the early XXIth Century, international migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe has generated increasing public and policy attention. The flotilla of boats bringing would-be migrants to the Canary Islands, and attempts to reach Spanish territory in Ceuta and Mellila have drawn a rapid response from Europe in the form of new policy measures. Yet the scope, nature and likely development of Sub-Saharan African migration to Europe remained poorly understood, and, as a result, European polices may be ineffective. A major cause of this lack of understanding was the absence of comprehensive data on the causes of migration and circulation between Africa and Europe. The MAFE project aimed at overcoming this lack of understanding by collecting unique data on the characteristics and behavior of migrants from Sub-Saharan countries to Europe. The key notion underpinning the project was that migration must not only be seen as a one-way flow from Africa to Europe. The argument was that return migration, circulation and transnational practices are significant and must be understood in order to design better migration policy. The MAFE project focused on migration flows between Europe (Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK) and Senegal, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana, which together accounted for over a quarter of all African migration to the EU at the time of the survey. In each of these "migration systems", the survey was designed to document four key areas: - Patterns of migration : *the socio-demographic characteristics of migrants, *the routes of migration from Africa to Europe, and *the patterns of return migration and circulation. - Determinants of migration: looking at departure, but also return and circulation and taking into account the whole set of possible destinations. - Migration and Development: MAFE documents some of the socio-economic changes driven by international migration, looking as often as possible at both ends of the Afro-European migration system, at the individual level. - Migrations and Families: the data collected by the MAFE project can be used to study all sorts of interactions between family formation and international migration. Although the survey was primarily designed to study international migration, it can also be used to study other phenomena, especially in Africa: domestic mobility, labor market participation, family formation, etc. Comparable data was collected in both 3 sending and 6 destination countries, i.e. in sub-Saharan Africa and in Europe. The data are longitudinal - including retrospective migration, education, work and family histories for individuals - and multi-level - (with data collected at the individual and household levels, in addition of macro-contextual data). Please consult the official MAFE website for further details : https://mafeproject.site.ined.fr/en/

Thèmes

Nom	Source	URI
World migrations, discrimination, integration	Ined	https://data.ined.fr/index.php/catalog/?page=1&Th%C3%A8mes%5B%5D=1&ps=15
Economic conditions and indicators	CESSDA Topic Classification	https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification
Cultural and national identity	CESSDA Topic Classification	https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification
Migration	CESSDA Topic Classification	https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification

Mots-clés

Nom	Source	URI
Africa
Europe
France
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Ghana
International migration	ELSST	https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/94feea64-93f8-40c3-acd0-23c197ff6421
International migration	ELSST	https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/94feea64-93f8-40c3-acd0-23c197ff6421
Emigration	ELSST	https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/5e868e71-e887-4487-b79e-11cda0b34eff
Immigration	ELSST	https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/ebf35305-df80-4770-8bfe-2311389c5331

Série

Migrations between Africa and Europe (MAFE) (2008 – 2010)

Production

Producteurs

Nom	Acronyme
Institut national d'études démographiques	Ined
University of Ghana	UG
Maastricht University	UM
University of Sussex	US

Auteur

Nom	Affiliation
BEAUCHEMIN Cris	Ined

Autres contributeurs et remerciements

Nom	Rôle	Affiliation
ADDOQUAYE TAGOE Cynthia		CMS
AMETEPE Fofo		Ined
AWUMBILA Mariama		CMS
BINAISA Nalu		U. Sussex
BLACK Richard	Project coordinator	U. Sussex
BRINGE Arnaud		Ined
CAARLS Kim		U. Maastricht
CASTALDO Adriana		U. Sussex
DAURELE Catherine	Coordination assistant	Ined
FREMPONG Faustina		CMS
GARBIN David		U. Sussex
GENT Saskia		U. Sussex
KABBANJI Lama		Ined
LAURENT Raphaël		Ined
LEJBOWICZ Tania		Ined
LESSAULT David		Ined
MANUH Takyiwaa		CMS
MAZZUCATO Valentina	Project coordinator	U. Maastricht
MEZGER Cora		Ined
NAPPA Jocelyn		Ined
QUAGLIA Martine		Ined
QUARTEY Peter	Project coordinator	CMS
RAZAFINDRATSIMA Nicolas		Ined
SCHANS Djamila		U. Maastricht
SWARD Jon		U. Sussex
THEVENIN Marc		Ined
TOMA Sorana		Ined
VICKSTROM Erik		Ined
VIVIER Géraldine		Ined

Date de production

2010

Période couverte par les données

2009 - 2010

Subvention

217206

Diffuseur

Nom	Acronyme	URI
Institut national d'études démographiques (Ined)	Progedo-Ined	https://www.ined.fr/

Date de diffusion

2014-06

Citation bibliographique

English version : Migrations between Africa and Europe - MAFE Ghana (2009-2010) [datafile]. Ined, Maastricht University, University of Ghana, University of Sussex [producers]. Ined [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.48756/ined-IE0216C-1009 French version : Migrations entre l'Afrique et l'Europe - MAFE Ghana (2009-2010) [datafile]. Ined, Maastricht University, University of Ghana, University of Sussex [producteurs]. Ined [diffuseur]. https://doi.org/10.48756/ined-IE0216C-1009

Notes

The MAFE project involved 10 organisations representing a wide range of disciplines and institutions. Through the researchers involved, it combined the approaches of demographers, geographers, economists and of socio-anthropologists. The partners brought a combination of quantitative and qualitative skills. Each of the work packages brought together researchers with strong quantitative background and know-how in processing statistical analysis and large-scale data-sets, and researchers with a strong qualitative knowledge on migration patterns and African contexts. Both for project organisation and the relevance of project results, it was essential to involve European and African partners on the same footing. In addition to the North/South balance, attention has been paid to the balance within the receiving countries, between Western European countries and Southern European countries, new and older receiving countries.

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