ABSTRACT

In Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, the so-called street children and youth I worked with usually preferred to describe themselves as juvenile migrants, ‘searching money’ in order to support themselves and their family and, some day, build their own future. Could they indeed be considered as participating to a form of juvenile migration? I addressed this hypothesis as an anthropologist by looking empirically at their economic practices. The analysis of the daily budget of dozens of bakoroman revealed that their desire to appear as providers for their family was not simply delusional: it materialised in routine saving practices and remittances to their family. But these practices varied significantly from one group and from one individual to another. These variations revealed that they navigated between norms of juvenile labour migration, which entailed redistribution to kin, and that of a deviant street ethos, which is based on a rugged individualism.

摘要

在布基纳法索首都瓦加杜古，与我一起工作的所谓街头儿童和青少年通常更愿意将自己描述为少年移民，“寻找金钱”以养活自己和家人，并有一天建立自己的未来。他们真的可以被视为参与某种形式的青少年移民吗？作为一名人类学家，我通过实证观察他们的经济实践来提出这个假设。数十名bakoroman每日预算分析透露，他们希望成为家庭供养者的愿望不仅仅是妄想：它在日常储蓄实践和向家人汇款中实现了。但这些做法在不同群体和不同个体之间存在很大差异。这些差异表明，他们在青少年劳动力移民规范和异常街头风气（基于粗暴的个人主义）之间游走，前者需要对亲属进行重新分配。