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\u00c0 propos de Cai Chen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cai CHEN est doctorant-assistant au Laboratoire d’anthropologie des mondes contemporains (LAMC), Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 laur\u00e9at 2024 des bourses de terrain Noria Research<\/a> destin\u00e9e \u00e0 soutenir la jeune recherche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discutante<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Laura ODASSO est sociologue, enseignante chercheuse contractuelle \u00e0 Cergy Paris Universit\u00e9 et Ecole Pratique de Service Social (EPSS-Cergy). Elle est \u00e9galement chercheure rattach\u00e9e la chaire Migrations et Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s du Coll\u00e8ge de France, affili\u00e9e \u00e0 l’Institut Convergences migration et associ\u00e9e \u00e0 l’URMIS (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Cit\u00e9) et au MESOPOLHIS (Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9). Ses recherches sont situ\u00e9es \u00e0 la crois\u00e9e de la sociologie des migrations internationales, de la sociologie de la famille, de la socio-anthropologie du droit, et de l’\u00e9tude de la r\u00e9ceptionde l’action publique par ses ressortissants individuels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retour sur la communication<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Axe 5 – Genre et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cette communication s\u2019int\u00e9resse aux exp\u00e9riences v\u00e9cues des couples mixtes sino-congolais en R\u00e9publique D\u00e9mocratique du Congo (RDC), dans une perspective de Sud global. \u00c0 partir d\u2019une ethnographie multi-situ\u00e9e, l\u2019auteur explore comment ces couples n\u00e9gocient, d\u00e9placent ou reconfigurent les fronti\u00e8res ethnoraciales dans un contexte social marqu\u00e9 par les hi\u00e9rarchies postcoloniales, les discours racialisants et les rapports de pouvoir in\u00e9gaux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plut\u00f4t que de concevoir les identit\u00e9s \u00ab chinoise \u00bb et \u00ab congolaise \u00bb comme des cat\u00e9gories fixes et homog\u00e8nes, l\u2019\u00e9tude adopte une approche individualisante qui met en lumi\u00e8re leur caract\u00e8re fluide et construit socialement. Elle montre comment les individus, au sein de la relation conjugale, mobilisent diff\u00e9rents registres pour traverser ou red\u00e9finir les diff\u00e9rences per\u00e7ues. Trois strat\u00e9gies principales sont identifi\u00e9es :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. L\u2019effacement des diff\u00e9rences<\/strong> : certains couples mettent en avant des valeurs universelles, des affinit\u00e9s personnelles ou l\u2019amour sinc\u00e8re pour d\u00e9passer les barri\u00e8res raciales, en insistant sur leur humanit\u00e9 partag\u00e9e.
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  2. La reconnaissance et la requalification de la diff\u00e9rence<\/strong> : d\u2019autres reconnaissent les diff\u00e9rences sociales, raciales ou culturelles, mais les recodent positivement. Le\/la partenaire congolais\u00b7e est ainsi d\u00e9crit\u00b7e comme instruit\u00b7e, cosmopolite ou vertueux\u00b7se, en opposition aux st\u00e9r\u00e9otypes n\u00e9gatifs associ\u00e9s \u00e0 la population locale.
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  3. La gestion des discriminations au quotidien<\/strong> : les couples doivent \u00e9galement affronter des regards ext\u00e9rieurs, des soup\u00e7ons ou des critiques de la part des familles, des communaut\u00e9s ou des institutions. Il en r\u00e9sulte parfois des ajustements, notamment du c\u00f4t\u00e9 du partenaire chinois, qui peut chercher \u00e0 \u00ab encadrer \u00bb certains comportements (alimentation, religion, propret\u00e9) de son\/sa conjoint\u00b7e congolais\u00b7e afin de se conformer \u00e0 des normes implicites, au risque de reproduire des hi\u00e9rarchies raciales ou sociales.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Ainsi, les relations mixtes sino-congolaises apparaissent comme des espaces d\u2019intimit\u00e9, mais aussi comme des terrains de n\u00e9gociation des normes sociales, des identit\u00e9s et des rapports de domination. Si elles remettent parfois en cause les fronti\u00e8res raciales et culturelles, elles peuvent aussi reproduire des logiques de distinction fond\u00e9es sur la classe, la couleur de peau ou la respectabilit\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ce travail propose une lecture d\u00e9coloniale des mariages mixtes, en d\u00e9centrant l\u2019analyse habituellement centr\u00e9e sur les relations Nord-Sud. Il offre aussi une perspective \u00ab par le bas \u00bb sur les relations Chine-Afrique, en s\u2019int\u00e9ressant aux dynamiques interpersonnelles qui sous-tendent les transformations g\u00e9opolitiques globales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    L\u2019auteur reconna\u00eet certaines limites \u00e0 son enqu\u00eate \u2013 notamment un \u00e9chantillon restreint et d\u00e9s\u00e9quilibr\u00e9 sur le plan du genre \u2013 et sugg\u00e8re d\u2019\u00e9largir les recherches futures \u00e0 d\u2019autres dimensions : perceptions sociales \u00e9largies, dynamiques familiales, circulation transnationale, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":32211,"template":"","project":[14],"region":[86],"class_list":["post-498","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project-seminaire-de-recherche","region-afrique"],"yoast_head":"\nS\u00e9minaire - S\u00e9ance n\u00b011 - C. 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