Mobility is a resource and a privilege that is unevenly distributed between countries, and within countries. People from developing countries depend on visas and residence permits to a larger extent than citizens of the developed world. Most migration policy research determines the inequality of...

Migration policy research is biased towards receiving countries. Furthermore, even emigration policies are generally evaluated against their ability to control migration. This article asserts that 'filling the sending-country gap' should go beyond the role of policies in shaping (or reducing)...

"L'histoire presentee dans cet ouvrage est celle de la migration telle que perçue et rememoree par les femmes et les hommes qui se sont deplaces, depuis 1900, à l'interieur comme à l'exterieur du Burkina Faso, de même que par celles et ceux qui y sont retournes. Il s'agit en effet de l'un...

Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial rule? We study the case of Burkina Faso, considered the largest labor reservoir in West Africa by the French colonial authorities. Hundreds of thousands of young men were...