[ «Qui part en migration irrégulière ?»: Analyse des profils de candidats à la migration irrégulière au Sénégal ]
Volume 43, Issue 1, July 2024, Pages 112–121
Abdoulaye NGOM1
1 Enseignant-chercheur, Laboratoire de recherche en sciences sociales (LARSES), Département de sociologie, Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor, Senegal
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
For some years now, young Senegalese have been attempting to emigrate irregularly by sea aboard cayucos, or by land aboard trucks and pick-ups. While the causes, consequences, methods of financing and policies to prevent travel has been widely studied, the profiles of candidates for irregular migration have received little attention from researchers and political decision makers. It is with this in mind that this contribution aims to examine in depth the profiles of these candidates for irregular migration, little explored in the analysis of irregular migration in the Senegalese context. Using the Casamance region, where we have been conducting research on irregular migration for over ten years, as our point of observation, and drawing on a rich corpus of 70 life histories of would-be migrants, this contribution sets out to highlight the different profiles of would-be migrants and shows how, over the years, these profiles have undergone profound change because of the diversification of migration routes to both Europe and the USA.
Author Keywords: Irregular Migration, Profile, Casamance, Senegal.
Volume 43, Issue 1, July 2024, Pages 112–121
Abdoulaye NGOM1
1 Enseignant-chercheur, Laboratoire de recherche en sciences sociales (LARSES), Département de sociologie, Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor, Senegal
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
For some years now, young Senegalese have been attempting to emigrate irregularly by sea aboard cayucos, or by land aboard trucks and pick-ups. While the causes, consequences, methods of financing and policies to prevent travel has been widely studied, the profiles of candidates for irregular migration have received little attention from researchers and political decision makers. It is with this in mind that this contribution aims to examine in depth the profiles of these candidates for irregular migration, little explored in the analysis of irregular migration in the Senegalese context. Using the Casamance region, where we have been conducting research on irregular migration for over ten years, as our point of observation, and drawing on a rich corpus of 70 life histories of would-be migrants, this contribution sets out to highlight the different profiles of would-be migrants and shows how, over the years, these profiles have undergone profound change because of the diversification of migration routes to both Europe and the USA.
Author Keywords: Irregular Migration, Profile, Casamance, Senegal.
Abstract: (french)
Depuis quelques années, des jeunes sénégalais tentent d’émigrer irrégulièrement à bord de cayucos en empruntant la voie maritime, ou à bord de camions et de pick-up en empruntant la voie terrestre. Si les causes, les conséquences, le mode de financement, les politiques de prévention des voyages ont été largement étudiés, la problématique des profils des candidats à la migration irrégulière retient peu l’attention des chercheurs et décideurs politiques. C’est à la faveur de ce constat que cette contribution se donne pour objectifs d’examiner en profondeur les profils de ces candidats à la migration irrégulière peu explorés dans l’analyse des migrations irrégulières dans le contexte sénégalais. En prenant ainsi comme lieu d’observation la Casamance où nous effectuons depuis plus de dix ans des recherches sur les migrations irrégulières et en nous appuyant sur un riche corpus de 70 récits de vie effectués auprès de candidats à la migration, cette contribution s’emploie à mettre en exergue les différents profils de candidats à la migration et montre comment au fil des années ces profils ont connu une profonde mutation en raison de la diversification des routes migratoires aussi bien vers l’Europe que vers les États-Unis.
Author Keywords: Migration irrégulière, profil, Casamance, Sénégal.
How to Cite this Article
Abdoulaye NGOM, “«Who goes on irregular migration?»: Analysis of the profiles of candidates for irregular migration in Senegal,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 112–121, July 2024.
