Transmissions culturelles au sein des familles et dans les espaces publics : cas des immigrés camerounais en France

• Main Authors: Pierre Kamdem, Abdoul Hameth Ba
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 2021-01-01
• Series: Espace populations sociétés
• Subjects: matrimonial strategy; cultural transmission; families; immigrants; cameroonian; parisian region
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/eps/11085

This article studies the question of the cultural transmission process taking place inside immigrant families of Cameroon origin and living in the parisian region. Amongst the most dynamic migration flow in this last decade, cameroonian migration tends to be reinforced in the parisian region where they have already built a strong tropism for a diasporic perspective. On this basis, some of the major elements for the construction of this diaspora are 1) the consolidation of ethnic immigrant associations and 2) matrimonial strategy based on an endogamic system more or less strong and adopted in the aim to encourage the cultural transmission inside immigrant families.However, looking closely these families, it seems that a process of cultural hybridization is increasingly taking place, the effects of which need to be better defined in terms of elements at risk of marginalization both in the country of departure (unfulfilled citizenship through, among other things, the rejection of dual nationality) and in the country of arrival (various forms of discrimination, glass ceiling effect).