Des migrants « agents adaptatifs » pour leur communauté d'origine ? Analyse translocale des transferts politiques dans un contexte de changements socio-environnementaux. Le cas des Haalpulaar du Sénégal en Belgique.. ...

Policymakers and scholars increasingly assume migrants to be “agents of change” (Grabowska et al., 2017), “agents of development” (Sinatti & Horst, 2015) or “adaptive agents” in the face of climate change for their country or community of origin (Ransan-Cooper et al., 2015). However, we argue that this should not be argued ideologically, but should be investigated more thoroughly. Indeed, it is mostly assumed in a neo-liberal fashion, notably in the New Economics of Labour Migration theory, that the migrant-actor is a flexible, resilient individual coping in a too often depoliticised conte... Mehr ...