Descripción del proyecto
Movilidad de estudiantes en Mali, Níger y el extranjero
Los conflictos, las infraestructuras inadecuadas y la vulnerabilidad económica de la región del Sáhara-Sahel dificultan el acceso a la educación de los nómadas saharianos en comparación con las zonas urbanas. Por ello, los estudiantes del Sáhara cruzan ahora las fronteras en busca de conocimientos, capacidades e idiomas. Esto reduce aún más el número de profesionales altamente cualificados en la región. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto MARELS, financiado por el Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, examinará la conexión entre las minorías pastorales del Sáhara y los conflictos de Mali y Níger desde la perspectiva de la movilidad de los estudiantes de enseñanza superior. En este proyecto se documentarán los itinerarios académicos de los licenciados saharianos y se analizarán las experiencias de los profesionales que estudiaron en el extranjero. También se evaluará cómo las élites de la diáspora pueden armonizar sus objetivos con las expectativas de sus comunidades de origen.
Objetivo
The MARELS project aims to study the connections between Saharan pastoral minorities and the conflictual situation in Mali and Niger through the unusual prism of growing higher-education student mobilities.
Like other young Africans, Saharan students increasingly cross the borders in search of knowledge in another country for the purpose of gaining professional perspectives and acquiring global skills and languages, further weakening the number of highly trained Saharan professionals.
Saharan nomadic populations have been characterized in the past by difficult access and high drop-out rates across all levels of education, largely due to conflicts, poor infrastructure and economic vulnerability compared to urban regions in the Sahara-Sahel. It is believed that student international mobilities have the capability of ushering in a new set of Saharan leaders who are competent to make the best use of human and material resources for the promotion of a peaceful, prosperous and integrated Sahara-Sahel in Africa.
The challenge of this project is to write the unknown histories of Saharan graduates and to revise the common narrative of the Sahara as isolated and disconnected from the rest of the world, following the “mobility turn” in anthropology. Although much research has been produced on Saharan mobilities, scarce attention is given to student mobilities .
The MARELS project aims to fill this gap and provide an answer to the following questions. What role do Saharan professionals trained in international universities play in their home societies, given the sometimes conflicting expectations from the local community, traditional élites, institutions, government, companies, foreign actors (e.g. NGOs, military forces) etc? How do Saharan graduate élites establish objectives and strategic actions oriented towards meeting these expectations when they are in a diaspora in the Global North?
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
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