From 2005 the waves of the Atlantic Ocean that shatter on the Senegalese coasts, are ploughed by about ten thousand migrants in pirogues (most of them Senegalese) who set off for the Canary Islands, risking their lives to “gagner l’Europe”. In Senegal the phenomenon of boat migrations has triggered a remarkable production of images and discourses. In assuming movements as an exception, in the mass-media and official discourses the pirogue migrant is portrayed as a “kamikaze”, a victim or a “naive adventurer” who is driven to leave by the imagination of an idyllic European “elsewhere”, or by the desire to achieve the same economical wealth displayed by returning migrants. Conversely, numerous ethnographic studies suggest that for millions...
SOMMAIRE C. Canut & A. Sow — Les voix de la migration. Discours, récits et produtions artistiques. L...
In 2006, the Spanish archipelago, the Canary Islands, saw the arrival of over thirty thousand clande...
Cette thèse propose une analyse sur la migration au prisme du corps. L'enquête ethnographique, princ...
From 2005 the waves of the Atlantic Ocean that shatter on the Senegalese coasts, are ploughed by abo...
Contemporary Senegalese communities are devastated by the alarming rates of deaths in the Atlantic O...
Guest Lecture at Department for Anthropology, KULThe widely media covered waves of out-migration fro...
Dramatic and spectacular images of destitute African migrants suffering in their attempts to reach E...
Contemporary discourses on migration from West Africa to Europe tend to frame migrants as victims of...
The world is regularly confronted on television and in other mass media with dramatic images of Afri...
This article discusses the ambivalent representation of migrants in one of the important West Africa...
The world is regularly confronted in the media with dramatic images of African boat migrants. Seemin...
In 2006, the Spanish archipelago, the Canary Islands, saw the arrival of over thirty thousand clande...
This Masters thesis is the winner of the ASC's Africa Thesis Award 2009. It examines the decision-ma...
At the intersection of the sociology of migration and the sociology of youth, this thesis attempts t...
Over the past few years, the European crisis and the EU enforcement and externalization of border c...
SOMMAIRE C. Canut & A. Sow — Les voix de la migration. Discours, récits et produtions artistiques. L...
In 2006, the Spanish archipelago, the Canary Islands, saw the arrival of over thirty thousand clande...
Cette thèse propose une analyse sur la migration au prisme du corps. L'enquête ethnographique, princ...
From 2005 the waves of the Atlantic Ocean that shatter on the Senegalese coasts, are ploughed by abo...
Contemporary Senegalese communities are devastated by the alarming rates of deaths in the Atlantic O...
Guest Lecture at Department for Anthropology, KULThe widely media covered waves of out-migration fro...
Dramatic and spectacular images of destitute African migrants suffering in their attempts to reach E...
Contemporary discourses on migration from West Africa to Europe tend to frame migrants as victims of...
The world is regularly confronted on television and in other mass media with dramatic images of Afri...
This article discusses the ambivalent representation of migrants in one of the important West Africa...
The world is regularly confronted in the media with dramatic images of African boat migrants. Seemin...
In 2006, the Spanish archipelago, the Canary Islands, saw the arrival of over thirty thousand clande...
This Masters thesis is the winner of the ASC's Africa Thesis Award 2009. It examines the decision-ma...
At the intersection of the sociology of migration and the sociology of youth, this thesis attempts t...
Over the past few years, the European crisis and the EU enforcement and externalization of border c...
SOMMAIRE C. Canut & A. Sow — Les voix de la migration. Discours, récits et produtions artistiques. L...
In 2006, the Spanish archipelago, the Canary Islands, saw the arrival of over thirty thousand clande...
Cette thèse propose une analyse sur la migration au prisme du corps. L'enquête ethnographique, princ...