"Fishing communities' blues - the impacts of the climate crisis in Senegal"

Drawing on research conducted for the EU-funded project #ClimateOfChange, this action-research documentary focuses on the climate crisis in Senegal and its devastating impacts on the livelihoods of those living in fishing communities around Dakar and Saint Louis. Due to a combination of the climate crisis, overfishing (including by the EU), rapid urbanisation, as well as waste, some fisherfolk feel they have ‘no choice’ but to risk their lives crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. Through the stories of local people and activists, the film draws attention to the ongoing colonial continuities underpinning the climate crisis and the structures of racial capitalism that create socio-spatial inequalities in environment and mobility, with a particular focus on the role of the EU. A counternarrative is then given to contest depoliticised narratives of climate migrants as threat to the Global North, visibilising instead the unequal power structures at the heart of the climate crisis.