Professor Sokhna Cissé works
on socio-economic issues at
Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal
and is participating in a project on migration
and climate change organized
by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
El Project MASCARAS "Migraciones Climáticas y Refugiados"
Thank you for
giving me the opportunity to express myself, Professor Cissé.
Thank you so much.
I am also delighted to be here,
to also participate in this research project
on migration and climate change.
This is a question that interests me a lot,
especially since I started working on
climate change
issues a few years ago, with others.
Research.
So I'm really excited
to work with you on this project.
I'm also happy to be here and to be able to answer your questions
about the premiere.
And yes, the first question
climate change is not new.
How has climate historically
influenced human emigration processes?
And I may not answer these questions at this time,
perhaps I will share
based on the experience of Senegal.
And it must be said that historically the populations of Senegal,
as in other regions of the Sahel, have often migrated
in response to climatic variations.
So, between the 1970s and 1980s there were
recurrent droughts,
land degradation
A which led
a large part of the populations to migrate
to more fertile areas or quite simply
to seek alternative means of subsistence.
Thus, that is to say in urban and more favorable areas
.
So this phenomenon, as you mentioned in the question.
This phenomenon is not new, but there are also the effects
of climate change exacerbating
migrations in other regions.
And how.
Does climate change affect migration
today?
Yes, climate change
As I said,
therefore, further accentuates this phenomenon
of migrations and still continues
to play a more crucial role
in migrations, if I may say so, in Senegal.
So on the one hand there is the irregularity of the rains,
the rainy season is no longer like before, there is really
a drop in the period of rain which is arriving and it is still
for men.
There is also desertification, the rise in water levels in any case
which is linked to global warming,
which affects agriculture, which occupies a
large part of the population in agriculture
and the main activities have been moved to Senegal and
is extremely affected
by climatic variations and
at the same time affects the entire Senegalese economy.
And this pushes several farmers who
only rely on agricultural production and income.
Perhaps products from agriculture
have left their area,
but they are on a horse
to go to the city, what we call the migration
itself and some of which is also Senegal
to the 'stranger is only inside.
International situation.
In any case, these are categories which are much more affected
and who have the means to leave this area to migrate
abroad.
And then how climate change interacts
with others, Finally, which is about
action. At.
Danger is climatic.
There are other bad factors.
For example, youth unemployment.
As you know,
there is always a
The training of young people
in Africa overall is very high and we are moving towards
demographic events
and we will no longer have what it begins.
Already young.
So there is the unemployment rate, it has.
There is also
poverty which is very prevalent
in Senegal, layers
which are really vulnerable: women, young people
and sometimes in southern Africa.
But political instability in certain areas
and the Sahel which leads
certain categories, especially men, to flee
these situations
to migrate elsewhere.
So this is what we call it.
And who programs them
and not through representation in the media
and migration associated with climate change.
Yes, they say that the best sometimes
tend to simplify the relationship.
They climate change and migration issues
and focus much more on
climate stories and topics.
I must say that this presentation may
not
allow us to understand the complexity
of the motivations, especially of young people
who are going to migrate.
But I think it is really essential
to take into account the multitude of factors,
the questions of migration
and the point which is precisely
the decision of young people to migrate
and perhaps have.
What about the individual stories of migrants?
To learn more about what motivates them
and what can be determined during.
And finally, do you think that it is possible,
and it must be done, to gain perceptions of young people,
of the person, of their climate through the study and analysis
of simulation chapels in the media?
Yes, it is perfectly possible
to influence
the perceptions of young people,
perhaps by critically analyzing
how the media can relate to
migration from a climate perspective.
And to do this, I think that
and YouTube encourage a more nuanced understanding
of the factors at play
and perhaps by highlighting the voices of people,
in any case who are directly affected, that is to say
young people who migrate and who are really affected by the national.
And promote better knowledge of
migration issues and a large part of them also
greater.
So we can say that education and access
to diversified sources of information
for authors and
young people to better understand the problems
linked to climate change and migration(s).
And this is to enable
and become the very actors and migrant parties.
But the decisions that will be taken within
the institutional level and elsewhere.
These questions
will perhaps be linked to the questions and.
Thank you very much for
your time. Thank you.