Temporalités, savoir-faire et modes d'action des enfants travailleurs migrants au sein de la parenté élargie en Afrique de l'Ouest

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ID2140641
AuthorsDorte Thorsen (0000-0001-6279-7818, University of Sussex), Mélanie Jacquemin (0000-0002-1231-8601, Sociologie, Laboratoire Population, Environnement, Développent (UMR 151-LPED, IRD/Aix-Marseille Université), France)
Year2015
Volume49
Issue2
Pages285-299
Publication date2015-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00083968.2015.1020561
OpenAlexW2117136100
LanguageFR
Citations received4
References cited45

This article focuses on migrant children in West Africa in contexts where independent migrations during childhood constitute the norm rather than the exception. The article examines how the relative age and gender of a child influence his/her trajectory. It is based on the biographies of two young domestic workers - a girl in Cote-d'Ivoire and a boy in Burkina Faso. In describing their trajectories during the first eight to ten years of their migration to the city, this article shows that ideas surrounding age-appropriate work and the acquisition of new skills allow both girls and boys to increasingly exercise more power over their own lives. From these detailed trajectories it becomes clear that the dominant institutional categories, on the one hand, mask the diversity of activities of these very young migrants. On the other hand, they conceal the diachronic changes that take place in the course of their migratory work experience

Art · Developmental psychology · Ethnology · Geography · Girl · Humanities · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology

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