Mobilis in mobili : des vies « en mobilité » au Sud

Abstract

Relief workers, who can be identified to mercenaries, missionaries and misfits figures, are going around Southern countries stricken by natural or anthropogenic disasters. They are forming an unsung type of mobile people, living between different worlds : their native country, their place of residence and the world build between these (there, here, in between). These migrants coming from the North and the South are making more complex the gap between suffered mobility en the South and conquering mobility in the North. They are linked by a permanent practice of mobility at the point to live “in mobility”, mobile in a mobile world (Mobilis in mobili). At the same time, these relief workers are transposing from one South to another similar ways of life, copied on the northern standards and out of touch with the socio-economic local context. Though, their presences have strong impacts, moreover in fragile and permeable local contexts such Timor-Leste and Haiti. Indeed, these two countries are archetypes of States driven by an international community that applies there its development principles via UN missions and numerous NGO

Keywords

• mobility
• north
• south
• expatriate
• aid
• humanitarian