Al Azhar, scène renouvelée de l’imaginaire religieux sur les routes de la migration africaine au Caire
In a geopolitical context of closing borders in Northern and Southern which encourage migrants to increase and extend their stays in the Arab world and redefine their migration projects, new actors are emerging, such as religious institutions who accompany these movements. Our research shows the dev...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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2014-12-01
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| Series: | L’Année du Maghreb |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/2217 |
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| Summary: | In a geopolitical context of closing borders in Northern and Southern which encourage migrants to increase and extend their stays in the Arab world and redefine their migration projects, new actors are emerging, such as religious institutions who accompany these movements. Our research shows the development and strengthening of the role of religious organizations and of organizations of religious origin on the routes between West Africa and the Arab world. Some religious institutions are strengthened or find a second breath thanks to migrants. This is the case of Al Azhar University in Cairo, a university which attractiveness has regressed among Egyptians but which has found a new dynamic with the recruitment of foreign students, among whom Africans are becoming central. Thus, Al Azhar is becoming an important part in the crossroad of African migration routes in the Arab world. Our paper wishes to account for the historical bond which ties students from West Africa to this university. It will also expose migratory itineraries and describe the ways in which these African students become a community through their common migration and studying experience: the Azharis students. We will confront the projects and projections carried by these students – and the social constructions arising from these trajectories - with the reality of life in Cairo which lasts much longer than expected while returns in their original country become less glorious. |
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| ISSN: | 1952-8108 2109-9405 |