Transformations villageoises et regroupement familial

Abstract

Deux tendances majeures structurent aujourd'hui les immigrés de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal ; les projets collectifs de transformations villageoises et le regroupement familial. Ces deux dynamiques mettent en jeu des parcours migratoires parfois contradictoires , parfois complémentaires. Les immigrés africains vont-ils suivre une trajectoire similaire à celle des migrants d'autres nationalités, consistant à passer d'une immigration temporaire à une immigration de peuplement ? Ou bien , en raison de la nature des liens qu'ils ont tissés avec leur village , vont-ils mettre en œuvre de nouveaux rapports avec les deux espaces entre lesquels ils partagent leur vie : le pays d'origine et le pays d'accueil ?

Getting by in Europe's Urban Labour Markets : Senegambian Migrants' Strategies for Survival, Documentation and Mobility

“…In addition, the early migrants to France organised themselves in associations based on ethnicity, brotherhood, or region of origin, who would gather monthly contributions and invest them in community provisions: sanitation, a small hospital, an ambulance, a school or a mosque (Daum 1993;Grillo & Riccio 2003;Kane 2002;Marfaing 2003a;Ndiaye 1996;Quiminal 1993). These translocal development organisations were seen as vectors of development, and they did very good jobs, but they suffered from similar critiques as western development aid, including increasing dependency.…”

Transnational childrearing and the preservation of transnational identity in Brazzaville, Congo

“…Ba (1996) reckons that 80 per cent of all Africans who leave their home countries remain on the same continent. Even in the Senegal River Valley, renowned for being the origin of labour migrants to France (Condé et al 1986; Kane and Lericollais 1975; Quiminal 1991), two to three times as many people leave for other African countries as leave for Europe (Ba and Bredeloup 1997). Intra-African migration also has historical depth: unlike many contemporary South–North flows that began in the 1960s or later, migration flows within Africa are often several generations old, and some began well before European colonization of the continent.…”

Translocal development: Italy–Senegal

“…Meanwhile in Saint-Denis it would undertake activities with young people and women and in the field of intercultural relations. Notably, the accord emphasises both 'here' and 'there', thus operating in two (or more) worlds (Grillo, 2002), or in/between 'two spaces' (Quiminal, 1993(Quiminal, , 1997, providing an excellent illustration of the interface of multiculturalism and development. Indeed, in the text of the accord, 'here' (Saint-Denis) comes first, and it is significant that activities dealing with the problems of young people and women are directed towards precisely those groups of considerable concern to the municipality, bearing in mind that Saint-Denis with its public sector housing is very similar to the milieu portrayed in the film La Haîne (see also Timera, 1996).…”