Migration, a global story

Audio 48:30

Fatou Dramé, 42, trades between Senegal, Turkey, China and Europe.

© Théa Ollivier

By: Valérie Nivelon

50 mins

No, migrant does not mean poor and illiterate black man in search of the French El Dorado!

At a time when racist and discriminatory speeches are fueling hatred and justifying increasingly repressive migration policies, why not listen to those primarily concerned?

How to deal with misconceptions?

How to tell the story of migration?

Publicity

To the sound of our archives and reports in Dakar and Lyon by Théa Ollivier and Daphné Gastaldi.

With the participation of :

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Flore Gubert,

economist and research director at IRD.

To read:

Migrants, actors of political change in Africa?

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Pap Ndiaye,

historian and director of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, in charge of the

Museum of the History of Immigration

To read: 

La condition noire, Essay on a French minority

, published by Calmann-Lévy

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Claire Rodier,

lawyer at Gisti, the information and support group for immigrants

To read:

Ending misconceptions about migration

, text by Sophie-Anne Bisiaux, published by Atelier.

Thanks to Sophie Janin for the production and to Laurence Sarniguet for researching sound archives.

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