Table des matières

Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues

Introduction: Crossing African Borders – Migration and Mobility

• African border studies
• The conference themes
• Migration and borders
• The sample papers

Alexandra Magnólia Dias

Borderless World vs Borders as Walls: insights from a borderland group in northern Ethiopia

• The state’s trajectory and the extension of state institutions to a rural area: Irob woreda (district)
• The Irob’s myth(s) of origin and sources of identity
• The Irob in relation to Ethiopia's and Eritrea's trajectories and to the border
• The legacy of armed conflicts in a rural borderland area
• Strategies and shifting identities of a borderland group in a post-conflict context (2000-2011)
• Conclusion

Katie Kuschminder, Lisa Andersson et Melissa Siegel

Profiling Ethiopian Migration: A Comparison of Characteristics of Ethiopian Migrants to Africa, the Middle East and the North

• Introduction
• Global migration routes and trends: a focus on sub-saharan Africa
• Overview of Ethiopian migration patterns
• Results from the IS Academy Survey
• Demographics and background of Ethiopian migrants
• Migrant households' characteristics
• Migrants’ migration experiences
• Profiling Ethiopian migrants and situating Ethiopia within global migration trends
• Conclusion

Mamadou Seydou Kane

Identity Strategies, Cultural Practices and Citizenship Recovery: Mauritanian Refugees in the Senegal Valley

• Introduction
• The manpower-and-ghost community
• The psychological dimension
• Social/material aspects
• Local integration and adaptation strategies
• Making sense of integration
• The refugees’ role in Djolly community integration
• “Kaya mbeeya!” (either float or hover)
• “Dem-Dikk”: socioeconomic practices
• Dresses and cards: cultural strategies
• Outcomes of integration: villagers, wrestlers and travellers
• Conclusion

Hannah Cross

Migrants, borders and labour regimes in Mauritania: between militarisation and mobility

• Introduction
• The development of migrant labour into Mauritania
• The making of migrant labour patterns into Mauritania and Europe
• A frontier country?
• Conclusion

Jean Gormo

Forced Migration of Chadians in the Faro Division in Northern Cameroon (1980-2010)

• Introduction
• Involuntary displacements
• Migration in Africa: an old phenomenon
• Causes of forced displacement of Chadians
• Politics
• Socio-economic causes
• Choice of land of settlement
• Typology of migrants
• Effects of migrant settlement
• Socio-cultural impacts
• The economic insertion of refugees
• From a political standpoint
• Environmental impacts
• Conclusion

Patrice Pahimi

Taxation and the dynamics of cross-border migration between Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria in the colonial and postcolonial period

• Introduction
• Theories of migration, borders and ideological justifications
• Tax evasion and trans-bordermobility
• Tax measures and control of cross-border migration
• Conclusion

Dominik Kopiński et Andrzej Polus

Is Botswana Creating a New Gaza Strip? An Analysis of the ‘Fence Discourse’

• Introduction
• The problem of migration in Southern Africa
• The fence’s chronology
• The various dimensions of the “fence discourse”
• The environmental dimension
• The phytosanitary dimension
• International and political dimensions
• The economic dimension
• Social dimensions
• Conclusion

Aboubakr Tandia

Beyond the ‘Genius of Suffering’: the paradox of an alienated border regime - refugee integration in cross-border Dagana (Senegal-Mauritania)

• Introduction
• Cross-border Dagana: twin-towns broken apart by deportation
• The genius of success: from deportation to integration
• Exiles at “home”
• Refugee figures and settlements
• The refugee regime: politicisation and the humanitarian stalemate
• Refugee integration: practising the border, transforming the borderland
• Approaching local integration
• Refugees’ political awareness: from assistance to emancipation
• Local community integration championed: hospitality and appropriation
• Conclusion

Gabriel Tati

Territory and border crossing for livelihoods among (voluntary and forced) migrants from DRC to Swaziland: the re-imagining of a borderless spatial system

• Introduction
• Cross-border in historical, political and social contexts
• Theoretical framework
• Methods of information gathering and analytical framework
• Narratives on migratory trajectories
• Some reflective insights from the differing trajectories