| Titre | Une nouvelle élite dans les métiers de l'international : les expatriés africains d'Épicentre et leurs rapports professionnels avec les employés locaux | |
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| Auteur | Mamane Sani Souley Issoufou | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 81, octobre-décembre 2018 Les petits professionnels de l'international | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thema |
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| Page | 83-106 | |
| Résumé anglais |
A New Elite in the Field of International Aid: The Epicentre's African Expatriates and Their Professional Relations with Local Employees This study concerns the emergence of a new cosmopolitan elite within the field of international aid: the African expatriates recruited by Epicentre, an epidemiological research center created by the humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders. Drawing upon multi-situated ethnographic research in Niger, Paris and Geneva, this article considers the trajectories of these expatriates and their complex socio-professional relations with local staff. The involvement of expatriate Africans reflects the region's worsening security context, which has resulted in the departure of whites and thus the end of their physical involvement in the activities of the international NGOs present in Niger. Yet while the actors of Epicentre present it as an opportunity to promote a new type of employee, this phenomenon is part of a global process that, by discrediting local employees in preference to expatriates, contributes to the continuity of relations of North-South domination. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CRII_081_0083 |
