Social representations of illegal immigrants from the Sahel states in Algeria : an exploratory field study in the city of Tebessa

Abstract EN

This field study sets out to define and identify the social representations of illegal immigrants from the countries of the Sahel, according to the Central Core Approach of Jean-Claude Abric, using the Descriptive Approach, Relational Network Analysis techniques, Pre-investigation and The distinguishing forms, applied to an intentional sample of 95 people from the city of Tebessa, within different Socio-professional classes, who have or had a contact with illegal immigrants.

The study found out that the representation of illegal immigrant's concept was centred on a set of idioms and words of a social, economic and security character, which forms a negative particular attitude and public way towards them