La grande traversée: de l’émigration sénégalaise à l’ancrage brésilien. Géographie politique d’une route transatlantique et analyse socio-économique d’une insertion urbaine

Abstract The Great Crossing: From Senegalese Emigration to Brazilian Settlement. Political Geography of a Transatlantic Route and Socio-Economic Analysis of an Urban Integration This article, presented at the founding congress of the Association Internationale de Géographie Francophone in 2023, adopts a multi-sited and multi-scalar approach to analyze Senegalese migration trajectories to Brazil in the 2010s. It examines the political geography of these South-South routes, the transitions between stages, and the events that have reconfigured migration paths. The study also explores how Senegalese migrants integrate into Brazilian cities, transform urban spaces through new economic activities, and how settlement gradually evolves into a form of commercial and circular mobility.