Catherine Boudet, Les Franco-Mauriciens : une diaspora pollinisée, Revue européenne des migrations internationales n°23(3), 2007, pp. 109-132.
This paper deals with the diasporization of a formerly dominant minority in Mauritius, the Franco-Mauritians...
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Catherine Boudet, Les Franco-Mauriciens : une diaspora pollinisée, Revue européenne des migrations internationales n°23(3), 2007, pp. 109-132.
This paper deals with the diasporization of a formerly dominant minority in Mauritius, the Franco-Mauritians (or white Mauritians of French descent) who massively migrated mainly to South Africa during the decolonization of the island between 1947 and 1968. The fear for a “hindu menace” which triggered their emigration shaped a diasporic memory articulated around the preservation of their identity against assimilation and a continued sense of belonging to the nation based on the claim for being the founders on the island. We argue that the dispersion of the Franco-Mauritians neither corresponds to the classical diaspora articulated around the idea of root and filiation, nor to the hybridity model of travelling cultures and random multiplication of references. The metaphor of pollinization rather refers to a dynamic of dissemination towards wh
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