Decentralisation and Territorialisation of Migratory Resources in Mali: Towards Which Local and Transnational Governance?

Abstract

This text aims to trace and examine the interactions between international migration and decentralisation in Mali, in the light of the following questions: how the decentralisation contributes to territorialise migratory resources and to which local and transnational governance. Decentralisation reform (1993) has produced new territories (rural and urban communes) and created an unprecedented local political landscape since 1999 (local elections). Faced with this territorial and political renewal, migrant associations from the regions of Kayes and Koulikoro, based in France, have adapted the terms of their commitment to their villages. The regionalisation of migratory resources is underway, and produces new forms of local and transnational governance, in which the place of migrants and their legitimacy still seems very fragile.