%0 Journal Article
%T Le statut juridique des enfants m¨¦tis n¨¦s en Afrique Occidentale Fran aise de parents inconnus : Entre id¨¦alisme r¨¦publicain et turpitudes coloniales The Legal Position of Mixed-Race Children Born in French Western Africa of Unknown Parents: Between Republican Idealism and Colonial Turpitudes
%A Mamadou Badji
%J Droit et Cultures
%D 2011
%I L¡¯Harmattan
%X Le m¨¦tissage, li¨¦ au contact colonial, s¡¯entend ici des croisements   hors des liens du mariage   entre Europ¨¦ens et Noirs, r¨¦sultant de la pr¨¦sence fran aise en Afrique Occidentale. Le statut des enfants m¨¦tis issus de ces unions illustre, ¨¤ hauteur d¡¯un cas d¡¯¨¦cole, comment le droit construit ce qui, aujourd¡¯hui, prend l¡¯appellation juridique de discrimination.L¡¯auteur ¨¦tudie cette   question m¨¦tisse   ¨¤ la lumi¨¨re du droit colonial : la place des m¨¦tis dans l¡¯empire colonial fran ais pose probl¨¨me : sont-ils des citoyens ou des sujets indig¨¨nes ?Les d¨¦bats ont ¨¦t¨¦ passionn¨¦s tant du point de vue ethnologique que juridique avec notamment le fait que la notion de   race   s¡¯est retrouv¨¦e reconnue dans les textes juridiques. Colonial dominations have always given way, from a demographical point of view, to ¡°mixed-raced¡± populations who have difficulties to be categorized by legal classifications: are they true or second-class citizens? This article analyzes the situation in colonial Western French Africa (AOF), showing the fact that the notion of race has been recognized in order to give a place to children, born outside marriage ties, from unions between Europeans and Black people. Through the analysis of legal texts and judicial precedents, the author shows how the colonial law has created what could be considered nowadays as discrimination.
%K droit colonial
%K race
%K m¨¦tis
%K Afrique Occidentale Fran aise
%K Colonial Law
%K Mixed-Raced Population
%K French Western Africa
%U http://droitcultures.revues.org/2535