Youth Mobility in an Isolated Sahelian Population of Mali

Bibliographic Data

ID5742441
AuthorsClaudine Sauvain-Dugerdil, Claudine Sauvain‐Dugerdil (corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume648
Issue1
Pages160-174
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002716213485352
OpenAlexW2100480536
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited15

This article uses fieldwork collected in four villages of the Sarnyéré Dogon in Mali between 2002 and 2010 to explore the impact of unprecedented individual youth mobility. This small Sahelian population has been challenged by declining natural resources and an opening up to the outside world. Temporary migration of families before each rainy season or harvest has always been part of this population's adaptation to an arid environment, but youth mobility, especially among girls, is new. Although migration is short term and over relatively short distances, it is an increasingly prevalent alternative to agricultural subsistence strategies. Whereas economic reasons underpin boys' mobility, for young unmarried girls, the predominant driving force is the discovery of the outside world. Broadly speaking, youth migration in this population is one part of changing intergenerational and gender relations and is especially related to youths' more individual choices of spouse

Agriculture · Biology · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Geographic mobility · Geography · Natural resource · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Spouse · Subsistence agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Demography · Ecology · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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