Les mobilités thérapeutiques

Therapeutic mobilities cover a wide variety of practices and can be divided according to sub categories based on migratory and therapeutic determinants. This article offers to explore a binary category, that of therapeutic migration and therapeutic circulation, based on an ethnographic study of native Comorians’ itineraries to access biomedical care. The objective is to compare two geographical axes: the South-North axis upon which people migrate instead of circulating to and fro (Comoros-Mayot), the South-South axis upon which people can circulate freely (Comoros-Tanzania). Moreover, this article underlines contemporary specificities of illness and migration experiences, in a developping country