Episode 19
Online Influencers & Irregular Migration in North Africa
This week we are joined by Amine Ghoulidi to speak about Online Influencers & Irregular Migration in North Africa. Amine is a researcher at King’s College London currently focusing on European security. A career political risk consultant, Amine advises leading multinational corporations on reputational and security risks particularly linked to their operations in Africa and the Middle East. He was previously part of PwC’s Strategic Threat Management team based in Washington, DC where he assisted Fortune 500 companies in assessing business risks across various industries and jurisdictions. He has served as a senior adviser to leading international NGOs working to prevent and counter violent extremism in North Africa and the Middle East. Amine is a Fulbright Scholar and has Master’s degrees in geopolitics and conflict analysis from King’s College London and the American University in Washington, DC, respectively.
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Resources:
Read the article that Amine co-authored for Wired On YouTube, vloggers are teaching people how to migrate illegally.
Read the article that Amine co-authored for the Institute for Security Studies Social media bridges North Africa’s divides to facilitate migration.
Listen to Amine’s interview on this issue for the Global Initiative's Africa in the Global Illicit Economy podcast.
Discover the videos of one of the most popular North African immigrant influencers, Zizou on his YouTube, which has 187k subscribers.
Follow Zizou on Instagram where he has 38k followers.
Discover the work of Migrants As Messengers and organisation that aims to raise awareness to empower young people in West Africa to make informed decisions about migration.
Visit the Migrants As Messengers Facebook page.
Read the paper Migration narratives and communication: What role, responsibility and resources do governments have? by the Global Forum on Migration & Development.
BBC Media Action interprets the digital experience of refugees in the video Your phone is now a refugee's phone.