Thanks to all interview partners and people who helped with the research including:

Samir Abi – Observatoire Migration / Visions Solidaires (Lomé)
Luise Amtsberg (MdB) – member of the Bundestag for The Greens (Berlin)
Ingo Badoreck – German Africa Foundation (Berlin)
Marcella Barocco – Alarm Phone (Nijmegen)
Cheikh Ould Baya – Valletta Process Focal Point Mauritania – (Zouérat Mauritania)
Olaf Bernau – Afrique Europe Interact (Bremen)
Inge Brees – CARE (Brussels)
Sean Burke – Statewatch (London)
Tony Buyan – Statewatch (London)
Jean-Pierre Cassarino – Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis / Perugia)
Sékou dit Gaoussou Cisse – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Head of the Mission of the Republic of Mali to the European Union (Brussels)
Albert Chaibou – Alternatives Espaces Citoyen (Niamey)
Claudia Charles – Groupe d’information et de soutien des immigrés (Paris)
Ulrich Delius – Society for Threatened Peoples (Göttingen)
Alpha Abdoulaye Diallo – Réseau Afrique Jeunesse de Guinée (Conakry)
Alassane Dicko – Afrique Europe Interact (Bamako)
Helmut Dietrich – Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (Berlin)
Stephan Dünnwald – Bayerischer Flüchtlingsrat (Munich)
Hans-Georg Eberl – Afrique Europe Interact (Vienna)
Sabine Eckart – medico international (Frankfurt)
Musa Ecweru – State Minister for Relief and Disaster Preparedness Uganda (Kampala)
Meron Estefanos – Eritrean Initiative on Refugee Rights (Oslo)
Michael Flynn – Global Detention Project (Geneva)
Ralph Genetzke – International Centre for Migration Policy Development (Brussels)
Jürgen Gottschlich (Istanbul)
Andreas Grünwald – staff member of the parliamentary group of the The Left (Berlin)
Mohamed Ibn Chambas – Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWAS; Dakar)
Milka Isinta – Panafrican Network in Defense of Migrants Rights (Nairobi)
Cooper Inveen (Freetown Sierra Leone)
Dominic Johnson – tageszeitung (Berlin)
Chris Jones – Statewatch (London)
Thomas Hohlfeld – staff member of the parliamentary group of the The Left (Berlin)
Christoph Kannengießer – German-African Business Association (Berlin)
Uwe Kekeritz (MdB) – member of the Bundestag for The Greens (Berlin)
Ska Keller (MdEP) – Member of the European Parliament for The Greens / EFA (Brussels)
Jakob Kießling – staff member of the parliamentary group of The Greens (Berlin)
Gerald Knaus – European Stability Initiative (Berlin)
Martial Tetenyo Kodah – World Infant Alliance (Accra, Ghana)
Hagen Kopp – Alarm Phone (Hanau)
Judith Kopp – Pro Asyl (Frankfurt)
Karl Kopp – Pro Asyl (Frankfurt)
Andie Lambe – International Refugee Rights Initiative (Kampala)
Ramona Lenz – medico international (Frankfurt)
Barbara Lochbihler (MdEP) – The Greens / EFA
Carlos Lopes – University of Cape Town
Sabine Lösing (MdEP) – The Left / EL
Christian Manahl – EU delegation to Eritrea (Asmara)
Katja Maurer – medico international
Matthias Monroy – staff member of the parliamentary group of The Left (Berlin)
Niema Movassat (MdB) – member of the Bundestag for The Left (Berlin)
Melanie Müller – German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Berlin)
Ruben Neugebauer – Sea Watch e.V. (Berlin)
Carolin Njuki – Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Nairobi)
Neda Noraie-Kia – staff member of the parliamentary group of The Greens (Berlin)
Olawale Maiyegun – Director for Social Affairs African Union (Addis Ababa)
Rex Osa – Refugees for Refugees (Stuttgart)
Marina Peter – Brot für die Welt (Berlin)
Liepollo Pheko – International Network on Migration and Development (South Africa)
Martijn Pluim – International Centre for Migration Policy Development (Vienna)
Claire Rodier – MIGREUROP (Paris)
Marina Schramm – IOM Niger (Agadez)
Benjamin Schraven – German Development Institute (Bonn)
Christoph Strässer (MdB) – member of the Bundestag for the SPD (Berlin)
Ninja Taprogge – Care Deutschland (Nairobi)
Ralph Töpfer – German Institute for Human Rights (Berlin)
Jerome Tubiana – Small Arms Survey (Paris)
N’Faly Sanoh – Director Free Movement and Tourism ECOWAS (Abuja)
Maurice Stierl – Alarm Phone (Berkeley)
Zafira Sukee – Statewatch (London)
Mirjam van Reisen – Europe External Policy Advisors (Brussels)
Pierre Vimont – Carnegie Europe (Brussels)
Lydia Wamala – World Food Programme Uganda
Bruno Watara – Afrique Europe Interact (Berlin)
Sophie Wirsching – Brot für die Welt (Berlin)
Reinhard Wolff (Stockholm)
Charly Xaxley – UNHCR Uganda (Kampala)
Abdelbasset Zenzeri (Taboulba)

Contributors to the Migration Control research project (https://migration-control.taz.de/#en) on which this book is based:

Funding

The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut. The translation was also sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung with funds of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of the Federal Republic of Germany. This publication or parts of it can be used by others for free as long as they provide a proper reference to the original publication.

Our thanks also to

Dr. Christian Ankowitsch – Fleiß und Mut e.V (Berlin)
Kirsten Maas-Alberts Claudia Simons – Heinrich Böll Foundation (Berlin)
Miriam Edding – stiftung :do (Berlin)
Mercator Foundation (Berlin)
taz Panter Stiftung (Berlin)
Förderverein Pro Asyl e.V. (Frankfurt)
Ruben Neugebauer Matthias Kuhnt – Sea Watch e.V. (Berlin)
Dieter Behr – European Civic Forum (Vienna)
Stefanie Kron – Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Berlin)

Authors and Research

Inken Bartels (Hamburg)
Eric Bonse (Brussels)
Michael Braun (Rome)
Alexander Bühler (Berlin)
Tony Buyan (London)
Ali Celikkan (Berlin)
Michael Flynn (Geneva)
Katrin Gänsler (Cotonou)
Hans-Georg Eberl (Vienna)
Belinda Grasnick (Berlin)
Fabian Grieger (Berlin)
Cooper Inveen (Freetown)
Dominic Johnson (Berlin)
Susanne Knaul (Tel Aviv)
Katharina Lipowsky (Berlin)
Bernard Schmid (Paris)
Philipp Sofian Naceur (Cairo)
Andrea Stäritz (Abuja)
Nina Violetta Schwarz (Berlin)
Lea Wagner (Berlin)
Reiner Wandler (Madrid)
Paul Welch Guerra (Berlin)

Equipment

Daniél Kretschmar – taz.de (Berlin)
Laura Maikowski – Bildargumente (Berlin)
Pierre Maite – Ca Ira (Berlin)
Jürgen Neumann – Econauten (Berlin)
Gustav Pursche – Jib Collective (Berlin)
Robert Schuster – Econauten (Berlin)]

Translation

Lydia Baldwin Charlotte Bomy Anna Bodenez Nivene Rafaat – lingua•trans•fair – Netzwerk für Kommunikation (Berlin), www.linguatransfair.de
Emal Ghamsharick www.germling.com
Gaby Sohl – tageszeitung (Berlin)
University of Leeds Centre for Translation Studies School of Languages Cultures and Societies (Leeds)
Centre for Translation Studies (ZTW) at the University of Vienna

The development of this book was made possible during a period that the publisher, Firoze Manji, was Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Foundation, Berlin 2018-2019.