« Petites nièces » et « petites bonnes » à Abidjan

Jacquemin, Mélanie

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“…Children might be fostered to wealthier kin or relatives residing in urban areas to redistribute costs of childrearing, especially for schooling which has been a frequently cited reason for sending children to live elsewhere (Akresh 2009;Alber 2003;Archambault and de Laat 2010;Eloundou-Enyegue and Stokes 2002;Goody 1982). Children may also be sent to live with kin or nonrelatives for employment, sometimes as domestic workers or "petites bonnes' or as apprentices (Alber 2018;Bledsoe and Isiugo-Abanihe 1989;Goody 1982;Isaac and Conrad 1982;Isiugo-Abanihe 1985;Jacquemin 2009). Exchanges of children within kinship networks may be part of broader traditions and expectations about kinship or "entrustments," reciprocity, and exchanges of intimacy (Alber 2003;Etienne 1979;Goody 1982Goody , 1970Shipton 2007).…”

Section: An Enduring Institution? Potential Changes In Fostering Over Timementioning

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An Enduring Institution? Child Fostering in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Cotton¹

2021

Population & Development Rev

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Child fostering has been documented over time in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. We know little, however, about how the prevalence of fostering differs across countries and broad regions, nor about how fostering-and its predictors-has changed within countries over time. To explore prevalence, trends, and predictors of child fostering, I leverage Demographic and Health Survey data of mothers of children aged 0-15 from 139 surveys in 36 countries collected between 1986 and 2019, representing all regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Results suggest striking variation in the prevalence of contemporary fostering, ranging from 11.5 percent of mothers in Burundi to 45.7 percent in Namibia in the most recent survey. Fostering trends have fluctuated over time in the majority of countries, but have remained broadly stable, with random and fixed-effects models indicating that the key correlates across and within countries over time have remained stable, with the prevalence of never-married motherhood playing a key role in fostering. Together, results suggest child fostering remains an enduring institution in family life throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

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Section: An Enduring Institution? Potential Changes In Fostering Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

An Enduring Institution? Child Fostering in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Cotton¹

2021

Population & Development Rev

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“…The violence suffered and perpetrated, once integrated into the armed forces, are some examples of additional trauma for the individual. Children working in mines (Sastre & Zarama, 1994), in garbage dumps (Camacho, 1986), as domestic servants (Jacquemin, 2009), or sent to the streets as sex workers (Bhukuth & Ballet, 2009;Brial, 2011;Emmanuelli, 2011) are all situations that are undeniably sources of trauma at many levels. These multi-traumatic situations (Mathieu et al, 2012) refer to several factors identified by Bettelheim (1943) to describe an "extreme situation".…”

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Health and Education through Sport for development and peace in extreme development contexts: cases studies from various developing countries

Gadais¹,

Décarpentrie²,

Charland³

et al. 2021

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Across the world, young people do not have the same opportunities to develop their potential and become well-rounded adults. The world's population is approximately 1.8 billion young people aged 10 to 24, and about 90% of them live in developing countries within extreme development context. Optimal development of those generations depends on the resources for support, education and health and the means implemented to sustain this development. However, the imbalance of these resources is clearly observable throughout the world. Sport has been use in many developing countries to contribute to health and education for youth following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations. More especially, sport is use as a leisure to generate resilience, the capacity of a person or group to develop well, to continue to project itself into the future despite destabilizing events, difficult living conditions, and severe trauma. Several authors emphasize the role of recreational activities such as physical activity and sport in the resilience process or for academic perseverance. The chapter explores the perspective and the potential of using sport for the sustainable development for health and education of youth as targeted in the SDG. More especially, we aim to understand how sport can contribute to health and education of youth through cases studies from various developing countries.

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“…Tandis que le caractère urbain du phénomène de la domesticité résidente, et particulièrement dans les capitales (ou les grandes villes), est fortement marqué en Afrique de l'Ouest 29 , cela ne semble pas être le cas pour d'autres capitales, comme Abuja, Khartoum et Nouakchott, qui présentent des pourcentages de domestiques résident•e•s équivalents ou très légèrement supérieurs à ceux évalués à l'échelle nationale, et du reste très faibles (inférieurs à 0,5 % sur l'ensemble de la population résidente), y compris pour le sexe féminin. Abidjan, Dakar, Bamako et Harare présentent des pourcentages de domestiques résident•e•s plus élevés pour le sexe féminin (entre 1,6 et 3 %).…”

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Essai de mesure et d’analyse de la présence de domestiques dans les ménages en Afrique subsaharienne

Pilon¹,

Delaunay²,

Marcoux³

et al. 2019

Politique Africaine

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Essai de mesure et d'analyse de la présence de domestiques dans les ménages en Afrique subsaharienne Alors que le travail domestique en Afrique, assuré par des personnes extérieures à la famille, fait l'objet d'un intérêt croissant, la mesure de son ampleur et l'analyse de ses caractéristiques se heurtent à un manque de données adéquates. L'article propose un inventaire critique des sources de données permettant de saisir les situations de domesticité. À partir des données disponibles, il synthétise et compare entre pays les niveaux de prévalence du phénomène, mais en se limitant aux seul•e•s domestiques hébergé•e•s par leur ménage employeur, avec une analyse comparative plus approfondie entre Bamako et Dakar.

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« Petites nièces » et « petites bonnes » à Abidjan

Cited by 34 publications

References 8 publications

An Enduring Institution? Child Fostering in Sub‐Saharan Africa

An Enduring Institution? Child Fostering in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Health and Education through Sport for development and peace in extreme development contexts: cases studies from various developing countries

Essai de mesure et d’analyse de la présence de domestiques dans les ménages en Afrique subsaharienne

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