Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart

Migration Policy Development in Mauritania: Process, Issues and Actors

Over the course of the last decade, several characteristics have earmarked Mauritania as a testing ground for European policies of migration. As a gateway to Europe on account of the relative proximity of its coastline to the Spanish Canary Islands, the economic capital of Mauritania — Nouadhibou — provides a strategic location for testing the efficiency of the containment measures implemented as part of the externalization of European policies of migration and asylum (Streiff-Fenart and Poutignat, 2008). Within the framework of the ‘migration routes’ approach which defines the positions adopted by EU partners in relation to the implementation of these policies, Mauritania’s limited migration flow towards Europe also provides a paradigmatic case of ‘transit countries’.

Réseaux et trajectoires d'étudiants africains

Nous presentons dans cet article quelques resultats dune recherche conduite aupres detudiants africains a lUniversite de Nice. La demarche adoptee dans cette recherche a ete monographique et inductive : elle vise a mettre en relief le parcours de ces etudiants comme un certain type de trajectoire migratoire dont lissue se construit tout au long du sejour et dont le sens selabore pour lindividu a travers sa participation a des reseaux de communication specifiques que nous nous attachons a decrire.

La prova della soglia: migranti africani tra mobilità e immobilizzazione

Questo articolo verte sulle migrazioni africane che vengono definite irregolari o clandestine. La principale caratteristica di queste migrazioni e infatti quella di essere una forma di mobilita ostacolata. Ponendo il controllo della frontiera al cuore della questione migratoria le istituzioni preposte al controllo migratorio hanno al tempo stesso spostato il senso che per gli stessi individui migranti riveste la mobilita, ormai sentita come una prova di superamento. Il nostro interesse si e portato sull esperienza sociale di quei migranti la cui vita si svolge sotto la costrizione dell immobilizzazione. This article discusses African migrations known as irregular or clandestine. The main characteristic of these migrations is that they represent a mobility hindered by the closure of Europe s borders and the continuous hardening of the policies meant to repulse the people crossing. By placing the control of the border at the heart of the question of migrations, the institutions in charge of migratory control have influenced the meaning that the people migrating have of mobility. It is now apprehended as the challenge of the threshold. We are interested in particular by the social experience of these migrants whose life unfolds under the constraint of immobility.

La culture des immigrés et le courage des chercheurs. À propos de la page sur l’ouvrage de Hugues Lagrange parue dans Le Monde du 14-09-2010

Dans son edition du mardi 14 septembre 2010, le journal Le Monde consacre une pleine page dans sa rubrique France, a une presentation d’un ouvrage d’Hugues Lagrange intitule Le deni des cultures, annonce comme devant sortir quelques jours plus tard. N’ayant pas lu le livre en question, il va sans dire que notre intervention dans ce debat ne portera pas sur une discussion des theses et des resultats d’enquetes qui y sont presentes. Sur le fond de l’argumentation soutenue dans cet ouvrage (ou ...