Border management issues : border security and humanitarian aspects

Abstract

"It has been predicted by the arts!" In 1990, the British screenwriter and novelist William Nicholson drew the attention to the mass movement of sub-Saharan citizens due to their bad living conditions in the film The March, a price winning BBC TV production. He described the migration of sub-Saharans to Europe, escaping from hunger and thirst. The initial small group is joined by more and more people on the march. Their dialogues inspire reflection. The leader of the group, Mahdi, argues as follows: “In Europe you have those wonderful small cats. We heard that one of these cats cost you more than 200 US Dollars a year. Let us be your cats. We could drink milk, lick your hands, we can purr and are much cheaper to be fed.”