Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire (Nov 2012)

2001‑2010. L’invention des routes commerciales des transmigrants baloutches de Kandahar à Malaga

  • Alain Tarrius

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.3073
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20
pp. 131 – 148

Abstract

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The Irano-Afghan Baloch, nomadic merchants, are the indispensable transmigrants in the birth of a world economy of poor to poor that was developed after 2000 by the major Asian electronic companies via Dubai. 65,000 strong, they invented important routes, circulatory territories and initiated original migratory cosmopolitanisms in the stage of the Black Sea with other migrants from Caucasia and the Balkans… and, in France, with young people from suburban ghettos, during the last stages of their transmigration. National, local and continental boundaries are redefined during their passages.