The Garifuna, the products of the conflict between Africans and indigenous Caribes during the colonial period, have been living since the 18th century on the Caribbean coastline of four Central American countries (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua). Following a steady migration process that...

International audience Migration is a central issue in the European Union, for many reasons : the large number of immigrants who live there, the positive level of the migratory growth rate, the increased global competition to attract the best brains, fears about the shrinking of the working populati...

Spain is a country that, within a few years, has experienced a drastic change in its migratory behaviour. It has passed from being an emigration country to one of immigration. But, in turn, the numbers of foreign residents in Spain do not fit a single immigration model. Several such models apply, re...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe very widely distributed Turkish migration worldwide retains its reference to a common origin. There are many businesses. Between countries of origin and residence move between transit countries and continuous movement. Both migration and international migration offer common...

This is a classic geography from the exclusion of foreign Bolivians from the margins of the Argentinian capital, by analysing, through itinerant and formalised street trade, how Bolivians have entered these commercial areas, and at the heart of the city since the early 1990s. On the basis of an in-d...

The article asks national press corpus, meeting and Mahoris about the issue of Mayotte’s languages. It shows that — even at the occasion of the referendum of 29 March 2009 on departmental governance — the sociolinguistic situation is only mentioned very little, and in any event outside the usual hea...

This working document is part of a series of texts resulting from the exploitation of the survey ‘Trajectives and Origin, Survey on the Diversity of the Population in France’ (Teo). These are working versions which will be published in a revised form in a book at the Ined.The Teo survey is a co-prod...

based on a presentation of the interim results of a research project on “Media and Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Area”, funded by the National Research Agency (ANR), the article provides a case study of the scientific and practical complexities characterising the internationalisation of knowle...

at European level, it can be seen that young migrant footballers often face practices that do not comply with both European immigration legislation and the ethics of the Council of Europe. In the context of a rapprochement of the competences of the EU and the Council of Europe since the entry into f...

The popularisation, in France, of the expressions ‘white marriage’ and ‘grey marriage’, like that of green card marriage in the United States, points to the increasing visibility of marriage as a migration route, partly overshadowing the traditional focus on labour migration. This phenomenon is refe...

Editorial of Bulletin No 9 of the International Observatory of Religious Facts.

We would like to question the qualifying properties of the term “migrant” and the mechanisms of the combinatory of the word “migrant” and its derivatives with other words used in the metaphorical sense (e.g. “migration blurring”). Therefore, we are seeking to identify the mechanisms for examining me...

Based on a field survey carried out in a local CIMADE group located in an average city in the province, this chapter questions the concept of professionalisation with regard to a specific form of work that is usually invisible: advocacy and voluntary work. The observations show that the militant wor...

This article explains the situation of Senegalese migrants returning to their country of origin due to a mental illness that arose during the migration experience. While the international migrant embodies a figure of success, the effects of the disease and the timing of treatment change his status a...

This doctoral work is dedicated to amateur cinema produced in Brazil between the 1920s and 1965s. Our research has been developed from a corpus of films produced by five families. In the first part, we return to the origin and development of this practice in Brazil on the basis of: study of the comm...

This article reproduces a memorandum presented to the Commission to study questions relating to the accession of Quebec to sovereignty, where we are trying to deconstruct certain unrealistic expectations and alarmist fears that currently exist in various sectors of the Quebec population about the co...

humanising globalisation and contributing to ‘bringing the world closer to the world’, migration, which is essential to human development, is also one of the conflicting globalisations that are opposed to political and economic, social, cultural and ethical objectives. A more fluid world: elites, ec...

The presence of sub-Saharan migrants, relatively new in Morocco, was only recognised after 2000. Although the projects of these migrants are not necessarily linear, they are considered to be ‘in transit’ in the context of negotiations with European countries. In fact, Morocco is not merely implement...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebDu migration project with first exile experiences is building a biased pathway where cultural representations are central. Respect for the other arises from the way in which it is actually represented, expressed in the way in which it is spoken and named. The relationship with...

This study addresses the issue of migration for African students studying in Switzerland, the influence of origin and destination contexts on the emergence of the migration training project and its adaptations. In a context of globalisation marked by the norm of employability, this qualitative resea...

'titrebSummary’/titrebThe migration field formed by the Senegalese in Casablanca is organised around hybrid logic, at the centre of which illegal and irregular migration is predominant. By refusing a priori to compare two migrant figures, one positive, ideally embodied in the profile of transnationa...

Muito embora a região euro-mediterrânica se tenha tornado uma das áreas mais importantes de atração e pressão migratória na União Europeia, tal tem tido pouco impacto nos principais estudos comparados sobre políticas europeias de integração. Grécia, Itália, Espanha e Portugal são facilmente identifi...

Lors du débat télévisé de l’entre-deux-tours de l’élection présidentielle française, Nicolas Sarkozy a déclaré : « pour tout nouvel entrant (…) je propose que, dans tous nos consulats, soit organisé un examen de français avant l'entrée sur le territoire pour toute personne ayant un âge qui dépasse 1...

The selection of beneficiaries of social action measures is an ethical issue which is the subject of intense cognitive and normative activity by public actors equipped with expertise. However, the historical examination of the distributional principles used in policies for the inclusion of young peo...

In Idaho and Montana just like in the rest of the U.S. Rocky Mountains, a part of the population wants to settle near forests perceived as environmental amenities. The regional net migration has been positive for about twenty-five years. Wildfires with variable intensity regularly destroy properties...