« Suivre la route ».Mobilités et échanges entre Mali, Mauritanie et Sénégal

• Main Authors: Armelle Choplin, Jérôme Lombard
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique 2010-12-01
• Series: EchoGéo
• Subjects: border; control; ECOWAS; European Union; exchange; Mali
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/12127

Fifty years after the independence of Senegal, Mali and Mauritania, the issue of regional integration and political relations between the three states is at stake. The ECOWAS promotes the establishment of a common market and free movement of people. This article sheds light on the spreading of transports networks, increasing exchanges and people transborder practices. Based on a multi-sited fieldwork along the “route”, this paper highlights new form of popular transnationalism but also the contradiction between Ecowas theoretical principles and the growing controls, which hinder circulation.