Les Africains en France

Timéra, Mahamet; Garnier, Julie

doi:10.4000/hommesmigrations.1719

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“…Adams 1977Adams , 1985. As one of the first and largest sub-Saharan immigrant groups in France, the Soninke from Upper Senegal, a borderland between Mauritania, Senegal and Mali, have been one of the most thoroughly researched case studies (see, among others : Quiminal 1991;Timera 1996). In his comprehensive historiography on Soninke labour diasporas, François Manchuelle (1997) showed Soninke migrants to be not mere pawns pushed by poverty and pulled by industrial capitalism but willing subjects building on a century of labour migration.…”

Section: Soninke Migration and The Young Men Who Stay Putmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In his comprehensive historiography on Soninke labour diasporas, François Manchuelle (1997) showed Soninke migrants to be not mere pawns pushed by poverty and pulled by industrial capitalism but willing subjects building on a century of labour migration. By travelling, Soninke men have found the money to support their families, together with opportunities to achieve maturity and find new cultural experiences (Timera 2001a). So tight is the relation between migration and male emancipation that some scholars have described emigration as a rite of passage for Soninke young men (Konate 1997: 8;Timera 2001a: 41;Jónsson 2007: 50).…”

Section: Soninke Migration and The Young Men Who Stay Putmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Melly 2010). Moreover, migrants have extended the village in the sense that its social hierarchies and solidarities have often served as blueprints for organizing diasporic and transnational life in immigrant settings (Quiminal 1991;Timera 1996).…”

Section: The Onus Of Rural Permanencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Spain again provides a case in point. Unlike in France, in Catalonia migrants have not lived in the foyers des travailleurs, the (in)famous migrants' hostels in which Soninke migrants from the Upper Senegal adopted the blueprint of the village (hierarchical) society to organize communal life (Timera 1996). Nevertheless, both Kaplan (1998) and Farjas Bonet (2002) show that chain migration and family reunions created significant clusters of migrants from the same Gambian villages.…”

Section: Diasporization Transnationality and Urban Homesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Soninke speakers often compare travelling to schooling, for, by seeing the world out there, travellers acquire knowledge (tuwaaxu) and awareness (wulliye). The signs of new knowledge are perhaps most evident in the growing and thriving number of sunnanko or sunnadunko (people of the Sunna), believers who abide by the Islamic texts and the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (Sunna) as a form of orthodoxy (Timera 1996;Rialland 1998;Timera 2001b). The literature refers to this as Islamic reformism, a heterogeneous movement and discourse inspired by Middle Eastern Sunni currents (Loimeier 2003;Janson 2013).…”

Section: Diasporization Transnationality and Urban Homesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bush Bound

Gaibazzi

2015

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Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.

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Section: Soninke Migration and The Young Men Who Stay Putmentioning

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Section: Soninke Migration and The Young Men Who Stay Putmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Onus Of Rural Permanencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Diasporization Transnationality and Urban Homesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Diasporization Transnationality and Urban Homesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gaibazzi

2015

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Pathways into Irregular Legal Status of Senegalese Migrants France, Italy, and Spain

Vickstrom

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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Illegal" migration is a major concern in most immigrant-receiving countries, yet most policy and much research on the topic is hampered by a lack of data and a misunderstanding of the origins and trajectories of so-called undocumented migrants' legal statuses. Irregular migration is difficult to measure empirically, as it, by definition, escapes the detection of most states' immigration-control bureaucracies. In addition, many surveys have difficulty in sampling what is a mostly hidden population. This lack of data has undoubtedly contributed to an even bigger problem in the study of irregular migration: the conflation of undocumented border crossing with the broader phenomenon of irregularity of legal status. In reality, clandestine border crossing is but one pathway among many into irregular legal status and may not even be the most important one in many countries. Furthermore, immigration policies actively produce these pathways into irregularity through restrictive control mechanisms. A more thorough understanding of the implications of irregularity for both destination societies and for the migrants themselves must therefore study multiple pathways into irregular status. An approach that is sensitive to the multiplicity of pathways and the role of immigration policies in producing them is especially crucial for understanding irregularity in European destinations. Restrictive immigration-control policies with an emphasis on border control have become the norm in Europe, yet the continent hosts an increasing population of irregular migrants and many countries embark on repeated regularization programs to adjust irregular migrants' legal status. The contradictions inherent in this system may stem from a misapprehension of the nature of irregular migration: research has shown that overstaying after legal entry may be a more important pathway to irregularity than illegal entry, and other policies may facilitate transitions to irregular status while the state pursues regularization programs.

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Seeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad

Diawara

2019

International Political Economy Series

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Les Africains en France

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