Mots et maux de la migration. De l’anathème aux éloges

Timéra, Mahamet

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“…Mahamet Timera shows that, in Senegal in the 1960s, through the various cultural productions of a certain elite – books, songs and films – the migratory project was not perceived as an achievement on the part of the migrant. Dominant representations in the public arena drew on ‘the registers of suspicion, guilt, stigmatization, victimization and poverty’ (Timera 2014: 30) 41 . These dominant representations were then linked to a ‘golden age’ of nationalism in which emigration was ‘thought of as “voting with your feet”, a way of challenging the nation and its elites’ ( ibid .).…”

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“…These new figures promoted by the state and popularized by the media were those of artistic elites – almost all musicians – of footballers and intellectual, scientific and technical personalities, in short of prestigious and remarkable individuals. (Timera 2014: 36)In this sense, this figure of the migrant is clearly shaped and instituted by collective representations formed within the Senegalese nation. They are created in a relationship of desire, and sometimes of apprehension, constituting the journey and the discovery of a certain otherness (Fouquet 2008).…”

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“…The act of leaving may be forced on them, but it is strongly integrated into the strategies and expectations of the group. (Timera 2014: 34–5)…”

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African colonial soldiers, memories and imagining migration in Senegal in the twenty-first century

Mourre¹

2018

Africa

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This article is an attempt to reconsider the representations that, in Senegal in the 2000s, linked the social history of the tirailleurs (African colonial soldiers) with the practical and symbolic processes at the heart of a number of migratory projects, especially among young people. The history of this social military body was rooted in almost a century of colonial domination, from 1857 to 1962. The tirailleurs played a part in all the battles of the French army and generated different kinds of social imaginaries that were woven between France and Africa. In the late 1950s, another figure, another ideal type, became established in the Senegalese public space: the migrant. After tracing the history of the way in which these two figures were constructed, I trace how, more recently, the younger generation has been able to mobilize the dominant memory of the tirailleur in its own aspirations of exile. Some preliminary methodological proposals will be needed to account for these migratory imaginaries.

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African colonial soldiers, memories and imagining migration in Senegal in the twenty-first century

Mourre¹

2018

Africa

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“…Chaque événement a son modèle de bénédiction. Pour les fêtes de l’Aïd, par exemple, les migrants ajoutent un couplet dans leurs bénédictions : celui de mourir au pays et non en exil ; et ceux restés au pays d’origine prient pour que leurs émigrés rentrent sains et saufs au pays (Timera, 2014). Un autre exemple est la spécialisation de certains chefs religieux dans les communautés émigrées musulmanes – sorte de Saints vivants qui sillonnent les communautés des exilés –, phénomène principalement développé dans les confréries religieuses Mourides et Tijaniyya.…”

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Pratiques religieuses et production de l’espace public en migration : comparaison entre deux champs migratoires

2018

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By observing the presence of what we consider a ‘religious tool’ – a set of expressions convened to stimulate a territorialization of religious practices – we present religious practices identified as a base of spatial production in public space, in migratory contexts. By comparing the Mexico–United States migratory field (with Catholic migrants in Los Angeles) and that of Senegal–France (with Muslim migrants of Soninké origin in Paris), we show the similarities and differences that religious practice produce in terms of spatial anchoring in the public space. We conclude that dissimilarities are mainly a consequence of a differential management of religion – in its relation to ethnicity – in the public space within host societies, and are scarcely related to the specificities of Catholicism and Islam.

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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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Mots et maux de la migration. De l’anathème aux éloges

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

African colonial soldiers, memories and imagining migration in Senegal in the twenty-first century

African colonial soldiers, memories and imagining migration in Senegal in the twenty-first century

Pratiques religieuses et production de l’espace public en migration : comparaison entre deux champs migratoires

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

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