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Not Africain and Africain diasporas of Africa
On Friday, 5, 12 and 19, December 2008 / the 11 h 13 30
Site Paris / 9, street Malher, 75004 Paris (underground Saint-Paul) / 2nd floor / room Person
Since about twenty years we face up a paradoxical situation : on the one hand, an effort of social sciences to eradicate the term of "diaspora" of its connotation linked to a historical experience and to open it, as socio-historical category, to other situations of migrations ; on the other hand, an usage at the same time, inflationary and sullied by this term joined with all kinds of migratory situations.
For social sciences, debate is far from being closed concerning the usage restrained or enlarged by this notion thrown easily in the media field. More recently, studies renewed in the field of migrations registered in our new context of globalisation, lead to new topics of reflexion and new problems, just as is paid a particular attention in the clean experiments of the migrants.
The first one left seminar will be dedicated to the debate of 1990s on diasporas ; we will analyse two or three scenarioes. The second part will concern the analysis of some diasporas native to Africa, in frame of different colonisation and in that of the building of States nations. The third part will examine the nature of some new migrations which, since the end of 1990s, renew the question of working migrations.
Seminar aims at a sensitisation and at an opening at problems and modes of analyses (socio history, socio anthropology) which are not strictly recovering from the field of historical studies.
Postscript : Weekly Seminar organised by Nicole Khouri (Donatecarcenter.com)
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