ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

Panel 118: Children and migration in Africa: an interdisciplinary perspective (Elodie Razy / Marie Rodet)

Panel Organisers: Elodie Razy / Marie Rodet

Recent scholarship on children and migration in Africa has demonstrated that migrating children can no longer be considered as „accompanying migrants” or as the victims of the migration decision of adults. This interdisciplinary panel aims to analyze the different migratory trajectories of children in several African societies (Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Central Africa, Mayotte, Madgascar) over the last 150 years in order to explore still neglected aspects of the topic.

Accepted Abstracts

Children and migrant Parents relations in home and host countries: Absence-presence versus Presence-absence.
 
Contemporary circulation of children. A comparative approach (Center Africa, Mali, France)
 
Unfree children in Mayotte island.
 
Children and migration out of Africa: familial change among asylum seekers and refugees in France
 
Contingent practices: fosterage, child migration and education in context
 
The End of Slavery and the Circulation of Juvenile and Female Workforce in French Soudan
 
Child circulation and schooling in malagasy rural area Marie-Christine Deleigne
 
The impact of deculturation on fosterage patterns, naming and representations in a Malian rural community