More and more migrants are taking the so-called Atlantic route to the Spanish Canary Islands. Last year, a record 46 843 migrants arrived on the archipelago, according to official figures.
For decades, trawlers from Europe, China and Russia have been draining the sea off the coast of Senegal. With the fish running out, desperate poor people are scrambling to find new ways to survive. More and more people see Europe as a last resort. But that road is hard and expensive to take, and many times people end up back in Senegal again
