Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines
Volume 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 145-167

Religion in common, color and ethnicity as border. The Senegalese migrants in Morocco [La religion en partage, la « couleur » et l'origine comme frontiére] (Article)

Timéra M.*
  • a Unité de Reserche Migrations et Société URMIS, Université Paris 7-Denis-Diderot, France

Abstract

In the relation between Moroccans and SeneGalése in the context of an immigration of transit and/or installation, islam expresses a sharing in both directions. If there is truly a certain current events and a presence of Islam in the relation, we wonder how this religion is mobilized there. Indeed, this religion is built as social stake. In spite of a fine relationship showed between Morocco and Senegal, their relations and interactions remain soiled by the memory of slavery of the "Blacks"which influences the evaluation of their muslim religiosity. In front of Moroccans who based their religious ascendancy on their ethnic and cultural belonging, the SeneGalése try to challenge their hegemony and heighten in islam.

Author Keywords

Migration Slavery Morocco Ethnicity race Sub-Saharan Islam

Index Keywords

hegemony slavery border region ethnicity Sub-Saharan Africa race Islamism cultural influence immigration Senegal Morocco black population

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ISSN: 00080055
Cited by: 5
Original Language: French