African immigration to Europe
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There is significant migration from Africa to Europe.
As of 2007, there were an estimated seven million African migrants living in OECD countries. Of these, about half are of North African origin, mostly residing in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands, while the other half are of Sub-Saharan African origin, present throughout Western Europe, with significant concentrations in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Some of this migration is illegal. The European Union Frontex agency's "Operation Hermes" is also monitoring the Mediterranean between North Africa and Italy. Due to increased border controls along the Mediterranean, there has been a shift of preferred migration routes towards Greece.
African populations in Europe
Approximate populations of African origin in Europe:
- Arabs and Berbers (including North African and Middle Eastern Arabs): approx. 5 million, mostly in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Greece and Russia. (see Arabs in Europe)
- Sub-Equatorial Africans: approx. 5 million; mostly in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal.
- Horn Africans: approx. 1 million, mostly Somalis and Eritreans, mostly in United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Finland
- Ethnic Europeans with colonial roots: approx. 8 million; mostly in France, United Kingdom, Greece and Belgium.
- North African Jews: approx. 500 thousands; mostly in France.
See also
- La ruée vers l'Europe — La jeune Afrique en route pour le Vieux continent (2017) by Stephen Smith
- Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900–1930 (1999) by Jodie Blake
- Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s (2000) by Petrine Archer-Straw
