L’influence de l’ethnicite sur le commerce frontalier: le cas de la ville de Kye-Ossi au Sud Cameroun

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dc.contributor.advisorBekker, Simonen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorEssomba, Philippe Blaiseen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMedjo, Michel Bertinen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-07T09:15:19Z
dc.date.available2021-06-07T09:15:19Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.descriptionThesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since their accession to international sovereignty, many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, despite attempts to integrate around regional or sub-regional groupings, still remain mired in economic adversity. Faced with this weakening of integration, populations beset by unemployment and poverty have turned to cross-border trade in order to ensure their social protection. In Cameroon, numerous research projects initiated since 1960 have attempted to explain the influx of populations into border trade by the State's inability to provide for their basic needs in the formal sector. In these studies, the influence of ethnicity on border trade has received little attention. This thesis addresses an overlooked aspect on trade in Cameroon: the influence of ethnicity on border trade in the town of Kyé-Ossi, located at the intersection between three countries: Cameroon -Gabon-Equatorial Guinea. This study combines both the historical and sociological method (socio-history) in its analysis of the recent attractiveness of the Kyé-Ossi market. The research represents a first direct study of the influence of ethnicity on border trade in Cameroon and in the town of Kyé-Ossi, in particular. It confirms the importance of economic variables in market towns that influence net migration flows towards Kyé-Ossi whilst providing evidence regarding the impact of ethnicity on the negotiation of prices, the easy flow of goods and the practice of illegal trade. Qualitative data show that such cultural identities are important in certain places and on certain occasions during regular market activities in Kyé-Ossi.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractRESUME: Depuis leur accession à la souverainete internationale, de nombreux pays de l'Afrique subsaharienne, malgre les tentatives d'integration autour de groupements regionaux ou sous- regionaux, restent toujours embourbes dans l'adversite economique. Face a cet affaiblissement de l'integration, les populations assaillies par le chomage et a la pauvrete se sont tournees vers le commerce transfrontalier pour assurer leur protection sociale. Au Cameroun, de nombreux projets de recherche inities depuis 1960 ont tente d'expliquer l'afflux des populations dans le commerce frontalier par l'incapacite de l'État a subvenir a leurs besoins primaires dans le secteur formel. Dans ces etudes, l'influence de l'ethnicite sur le commerce frontalier a mobilise peu d'attention. Cette these aborde un aspect neglige du commerce au Cameroun : l'influence de l'ethnicite sur le commerce frontalier dans la ville de Kye-Ossi, situee a l'intersection de trois pays : Cameroun -Gabon-Guinee equatoriale. Cette etude combine a la fois la methode historique et sociologique (socio-histoire) dans l’analyse de l'attractivite recente du marche de Kye-Ossi. La recherche represente une premiere etude directe sur l'influence de l’ethnicite sur le commerce frontalier au Cameroun et dans la ville de Kye-Ossi en particulier. Il confirme l'importance des variables economiques dans les villes-marches influençant les flux migratoires nets vers Kye-Ossi tout en fournissant des preuves concernant l'impact de l'ethnicite sur la negociation des prix, le franchissement de la frontiere et le commerce de contrebande a travers les chemins de brousse. Les donnees qualitatives montrent que l’identite ethnique collective est sont a certains endroits et a certaines circonstances au marche de Kye-Ossi.fr_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen Afrikaanse opsomming nie.af_ZA
dc.description.versionDoctoralen_ZA
dc.format.extentxv, 230 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110543
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectSustainable development -- Cameroon -- South Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectDeveloping countries -- Cameroon -- South Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectMarket segmentation -- Economical models -- Cameroon -- South Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectBoundaries -- Economic aspects -- Cameroon -- South Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectEthnicity -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Cameroon -- South Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectEmigration and immigration -- Cameroon -- South Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectCultural pluralism -- Economic aspects -- Cameroon -- South Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectKye-Ossi -- Cameroon -- South Regionen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.titleL’influence de l’ethnicite sur le commerce frontalier: le cas de la ville de Kye-Ossi au Sud Camerounfr_ZA
dc.titleThe Influence of ethnicity on border trade: the case of the city of Kye-Ossi in Southern Camaroonen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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