S’engager quand on est réfugié centrafricain à Garoua-Boulaï (Cameroun)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the collective engagement of CAR refugees in the eastern border area of Cameroon, specifically in the local council of Garoua-Boulaï. What is the context of emergence of this collective commitment? What can we say about its origin, its forms and its evolution? How does it relate to the space? The paper assumes that the collective engagement of CAR refugees in the East of Cameroon takes place in an environment defined and controlled by humanitarian actors, promoting the emergence of an associative-humanitarian field. The spatial dimension of this engagement appears in the constitution of a local social space marked by humanitarian action and in the urban centrality that seems to characterize this collective engagement.

Keywords

• Cameroon
• Collective Engagement
• Garoua-Boulaï
• Humanitarian Action
• Refugees
• Space