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==Emigration From Senegal== | ==Emigration From Senegal== | ||
'''KNOMAD Statistics:''' Emigrants: 540,400. Top destination countries: '''France, The Gambia, Italy, Spain, Mauritania, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, the United States, Mali, the Republic of Congo''' <ref>"Senegal," at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=20, accessed 29 July 2021.</ref> | '''KNOMAD Statistics:''' Emigrants: 540,400. Top destination countries: '''France, The Gambia, Italy, Spain, Mauritania, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, the United States, Mali, the Republic of Congo''' <ref>"Senegal," at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=20, accessed 29 July 2021.</ref> | ||
*Senegal was historically a '''destination country'''' for neighboring economic migrants, but in recent decades '''West African migrants more often use Senegal as a transit point to North Africa''', or as a stop before continuing illegally onward to Europe. | |||
*The country also has been '''host to several thousand black Mauritanian refugees''' since they were expelled from Mauritania during the 1989 border conflict with Senegal. | |||
*The country's '''economic crisis in the 1970s''' stimulated emigration; departures accelerated from the 1990s. Destinations shifted from neighboring countries to '''Libya and Mauritania'''', because of their booming oil industries, and to '''France, Italy and Spain'''.<ref>"Demographics of Senegal: Emigration", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Senegal#Emigration, accessed 29 July 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Senegalese Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Senegalese Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||