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The shipwrecked of exile: wandering, trauma and mental distress of refugees in Europe

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In the streets of Rome, Paris or Barcelona, one sometimes crosses these silent silhouettes with empty eyes, these men or women who seem absent in the world, walled in their suffering. Behind these faces marked by fatigue are often tragic stories: desert crossings, captivity in Libya, makeshift boats, etc.

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Dakar, the city in tension: poverty, despair and social divide, understanding the roots of urban crime

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The Senegalese capital under pressure: a youth trapped between survival and disillusionment Dakar, once a showcase of Senegalese dynamism, has now become a laboratory of social tensions. As the city expands, it accumulates its contradictions: wealth and insecurity coexist, hope and despair clash. In the peripheral districts (Keur Massar, Yeumbeul, Malika, Guédiawaye, Rufisque) ...

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When Europe was the continent of migrants: The historical reminder needed in the face of the contemporary hatred of immigrants

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As hate speech against immigrants rises in Europe and in the United States, it becomes essential to recall a historical truth that many prefer to forget: Europe has long been the main source of emigration from the world. Millions of Europeans have once left their lands, driven out by poverty, hunger and war, to go ...

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Europe in the face of Trumpian temptation: the peril of anti-immigrant populist drift

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Since Donald Trump's re-election for a second term in the White House and the revival of his aggressive migration policies: raids on the streets, mass evictions, and uncomplicated identity rhetoric, a chilling wind blows over Western democracies. From Rome to Paris, from Madrid to Berlin, the extreme European straight feel comforted ...

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The city confiscated: when gentrification pushes the poor to the margins

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Between New York, Paris and Dakar, the same phenomenon redraws the social map of the urban world: gentrification. The centres close, the peripheries spread, and the city loses its soul. The city that flies away There was a time when the city was a space of hope. A place where we came to work, learn, ...

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The invisible gap: how intellectual disparity destroys conjugal communication

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Love at the test of intellectual imbalance In the past, it was said that « the opposites attract ». Today, the social psychology nuance: they attract, of course, but they do not always last. The modern couple, whether from spontaneous union or from a long history, do not escape a growing tension between intellectual difference and the need for cognitive complicity. When ...

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The fear of women: the real engine of male domination: a journey to the heart of universal asymmetry

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Everywhere on the planet, from the streets of Kabul to the avenues of Paris, from the villages of the Sahel to the skyscrapers of New York, the same line of fracture crosses humanity: the one that separates, hierarchies and often humiliates the female half of the world. Women invisible, silenced or assigned to the margin, under the weight...

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The inevitable changes and possible ways of reconversion

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The shock wave of a silent revolution Since the invention of the steam machine, no technology has raised so much hope and concern at the same time. Artificial intelligence, for a long time confined to research laboratories and science fiction films, has now become the centre of our professional lives. In a few years, she learned to read, ...

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