Lebanese people in Senegal
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There is a significant community of Lebanese people in Senegal.[1]
Migration history
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Interethnic relations
During the colonial period, the Lebanese tended to support independence movements.[4] Their social position outside of the colonial relationship, as neither colonist nor colonised, enabled them to maintain good relations with both Senegalese consumers as well as the large French businessmen.[5] After Senegal gained independence in 1960, most French small traders left the country; however, indigenous Senegalese people began to compete increasingly with the Lebanese in the peanut sector, and soon after, the whole peanut marketing sector was nationalised.[4]
Lebanese migrants and their descendants have tended to maintain dual citizenship of both Lebanon and Senegal.[6] Most speak Arabic, Wolof and French, and some have become involved in Senegalese politics. However, they are a fairly endogamous community.[1]
In the early 2000s, the Lebanese began to be displaced from their position as a market-dominant minority by the influx of Chinese traders and the cheap goods they brought from China; as a result, the Lebanese began to shift to a pattern of buying goods from the Chinese and reselling them in remote areas of the country where no Chinese migrants lived.[7]
See also
- Arab diaspora
- Lebanese diaspora
- Lebanese people in Ivory Coast
- Lebanese people in South Africa
- Lebanese people in Sierra Leone
- Shia Islam in Senegal
- Christianity in Senegal
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Schwarz, Naomi (2007-07-10), "Lebanese Immigrants Boost West African Commerce", Voice of America, archived from the original on 2011-12-24, retrieved 2010-01-11
- ISBN 9782845868885.
- ^ O'Brien 1975, p. 98
- ^ a b c Boumedouha 1990, p. 538
- ^ O'Brien 1975, p. 96
- ^ Leichtman 2005, p. 663
- ^ Gaye 2008, p. 131
Bibliography
- Boumedouha, Saïd (1990), "Adjustment to West African Realities: The Lebanese in Senegal", Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 60 (4): 538–549, S2CID 145300043
- Leichtman, Mara A. (2005), "The legacy of transnational lives: Beyond the first generation of Lebanese in Senegal", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28 (4): 663–686, S2CID 144395215
- Gaye, Adama (July 2008), "China in Africa: After the Gun and the Bible—a West African Perspective" (PDF), in Soares de Oliveira, Ricardo; Alden, Christopher; Large, Daniel (eds.), China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and a Continent Embrace, Columbia University Press, pp. 129–142, ISBN 978-0-231-70098-6, retrieved 2009-04-01
- O'Brien, Rita Cruise (1975), "Lebanese Entrepreneurs in Senegal: Economic Integration and the Politics of Protection",
Further reading
- Boumedouha, Saïd (1992), "Change and Continuity in the Relationship between the Lebanese in Senegal and their Hosts", in Hourani, Albert; Shehadi, Nadim (eds.), The Lebanese in the World: A Century of Emigration, I. B. Tauris, ISBN 978-1-85043-303-3
- El Bcheraoui, Charbel (2007), Etude du vieillissement de la population libanaise vivant en milieu urbain, rural et émigrée au Sénégal, Ph.D. dissertation, OCLC 493494634
- Leichtman, Mara A. (2006), A tale of two Shi'isms: Lebanese migrants and Senegalese converts in Dakar, Ph.D. dissertation, OCLC 183678779
- Taraf, Souha (1994), L'espace en mouvement: dynamiques migratoires et territorialisation des familles libanaises au Sénégal, Ph.D. dissertation, OCLC 490432951
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