International audienceThis paper analyses the mobilities of residential tourism and its associated professional migrations from Europe towards two coastal regions of Senegal. Such mobilities partly respond to the economic crisis that professional and retired people face in Europe. Residential and entrepreneurial mobilities breathe new life into tourism dynamics at both local and international scale and they encourage the economic openness of the Petite Côte and Saloum regions. However, these activities rely on networks of sociability based on social distinction. Processes of ethnic and racial segregation highlight unequal socioeconomic status between European and Senegalese residents. European migrants tend therefore to withdraw into their ...