Gender and Vulnerability among Senegalese Women Heads of Households. The monetary poverty of 6594 households is analysed using data collected during the 2000-2001 Enquête sénégalaise auprès des ménages. Women heads of households suffer from more serious handicaps than men, being more often urban ill...

ECONOMIC MIGRATIONS, HOUSEHOLDS AND PATRIARCHY IN AFRICA AND SOUTHERN EUROPE

Preprint

Véronique Petit et al. (2018)

Preprint

Migration is classically analysed in migration theories as a behaviour associated with social change, professional mobility, more globally, modernity. Patriarchy is defined as a type of conservative social organisation; a certain number of institutions and practices based on law, custom and religion...

Female-headed households in Bujumbura : marginality, violence and resilience

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Anne-Claire Courtois (Sep 13, 2016)

Thesis

The usual structure of a burundian household is based on a male authority : a husband, an older brother, even a son. When this classical structure collapses, following the death, divorce or desertion of the male head of household, women enter a new status, which the patriarcal and patrilinear societ...

Female-headed households in Bujumbura : marginality, violence and resilience

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Anne-Claire Courtois (Sep 13, 2016)

Thesis

Young girls as breadwinners in Yaoundé : sociological analysis of a widespread but invisible phenomenon

Thesis

Honorée Merlat Tchoutchoua Bonjawo (Jan 9, 2015)

Thesis

This thesis examines the financial contributions of young girls in Yaoundé (Cameroon) to their family resources. Little attention has been given to the phenomenon of young girls as breadwinner in research in the social sciences; thus, our objective through this work is to try to make it a subject of...

Social uses of work groups in Senegal: school opportunities leveling factors

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Macodou Ndiaye (Dec 6, 2013)

Thesis

Work groups are part of the main informal school life-stirring factors in Senegal. Though they are at the core of socializing activities in high school education, they have never been studied on a sociological basis. Nevertheless, one has to admit that in the past years, they have become simultaneou...

The future of orphans in Burundi : analysis of the consequences of early parental death in the context of socio-political crisis.

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Claire Kersuzan (Dec 11, 2012)

Thesis

The aim of this paper is to analyze lifetime effects of parental death during childhood, in a country context where HIV/AIDS isn’t the main cause of death among young adults but deaths caused by a major socio-political crisis. During the 90’s, Burundi hosted the cradle of the regional conflict in th...

LA MESURE DEMOGRAPHIQUE COMME INDICATEUR ET ÉLEMENT CONSTRUCTION D'UNE POLITIQUE DE POPULATION. LE CAS DES MUTILATIONS GÉNITALES FÉMININES À DJIBOUTI.

Conferences and symposiums

Véronique Petit (Feb 1, 2012)

Conferences and symposiums

Les mutilations génitales féminines (MGF) font l'objet d'une réprobation internationale de la part des féministes et des instances porteuses du droit international qui vise à protéger les femmes et les enfants souvent présentés comme étant en situation de vulnérabilité et de domination. Les MGF sont...

Public financing of education systems and economic growth in underdeveloped countries: a case study of West African Monetary and Economic Union (WAMEU) countries

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Célestin Venant Cossi Quenum (Jul 2, 2008)

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At the World Education Forum of Dakar in 2000, international aid institutions committed to massive financial aid to the educational systems in developing countries because these sectors' performed poorly during the 1990s. These international aid institutions promised that no country that demonstrate...

Editorial

Articles

Luc Cambrézy et al. (Dec 1, 2007)

Articles

Vue du Nord, et de la France en particulier, la question des migrations internationales se trouve posée sous un angle qui amplifie les effets d’optique et contribue à une appréciation schématique de la réalité. Hors des cercles scientifiques, l’opinion commune réduit le sujet à deux caractères essen...