https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1134823038/climate-change-migration-senegal-africa-environment

This article details how the climate crisis is driving migration to coastal Senegal, where farms have more success. With this article, we can see how drives for migration can be multifaceted and complex. Economic and environmental drives are interlocked– contingent–, as one causes the other. As the climate changes and the temperature increases, agricultural success becomes more challenging in these migrants home countries, thus creating their drive to migrate. The article emphasizes how the majority of migration in Africa today happens within the continent, commenting how boarders are similar to that of the European Union as people can travel freely within these borders. They also note that moving freely among the land has historical precedent. As we’ve learned, borders in Africa were mainly influenced by the colonial period and do not reflect how the land has historically been used. While not mentioned specifically, this is presumably the effects of the African Union.

This article also reflects the idea that those who’ve contributed the least to the climate crisis are those who will– and are effected first.