L’insertion socio-professionnelle des refugiés de la zone de Garoua-Boulaï (1976-2014)

Abstract

The permanent insecurity associted with incessant public disorder in certain neighboring countries have led several people to take refuge in the Garoua-Boulaï area. After several emergency humanitarian interventions, with the aim of providing assistance to these vulnerable persons, there comes a transitional phase between rehalitation and empowerment of refugees as sustainable solution. The executing body of international protection of refugees (HCR) in the specific case of the Garoua-Boulaï area, intervenes with its partners alongside the government to help refugees to be self-sufficient. From the methodological point of view, this work is based on the analysis of the effectiveness of the socio-professional integration of refugees in Garoua-Boulaï area by integrating the interdisciplinary approach which invites us to dwell on the interactions between social science in order to account for the social state of vulnerable groups in their new environment. Studying the socio-professional integration of refugees in the Garoua-Boulaï area, made it possible to realize the government strategy to reduce the vulnerability of minority groups. Despite the support to this system such as the IGAs, micro-credits initiated to gradually make them independent, refugees have been affected by poverty, failure of social care structures, reduction in the financing of humanitarian action, disputes around coordination and poor inclusion of the host community are all ills affecting the effective integration of refugees in the Garoua-Boulaï area. Refugees are part of the vulnerable minority group; the management of their social status requires a permanent mobilization of structures and bodies in charge of effective autonomy.