La traversée de la Méditerranée comme rite de passage: une approche socioanthropologique du phénomène migratoire en Afrique

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Crossing the Mediterranean is a challenge or a rite of passage that require specific means to migrate in order to acquire a new status within the countries from which come those who undertake and successfully negotiate the dreadful and dangerous adventure of crossing the Mediterranean.

it provides the means to become an elite within the communities and countries of departure.

in this regard, the crossing of the Mediterranean consecrates.

as a rite of passage, it offers the opportunity to change social status and emerge as a big man in society.

this explains why, despite the dangers related to this adventure and especially despite the great communication against this form of high-risk illegal immigration, many young Africans and Cameroonians in particular continue to "try their luck" by investing in it.

this contribution suggests considering crossing the Mediterranean as a rite of passage.

the data collected and analyzed under the prism of interactionism in its symbolic and strategic variants makes it possible to demonstrate that important aspects of the crossing of the Mediterranean contribute to transform it in such a way that its appears as an authentic rite of passage which produce certain dialectical effects in the capacity of mobilization of this risky adventure in the African context.