Land accumulation, socio-economic change and spatial mobility among Wolof’s migrants of Pata forest

Abstract

Since their migration to Pata forest (South of Senegal), which began in 1978, the Wolof people whom came from Saloum, gave a new aspect to their life. The benefit they are making with peanut culture is used for many achievements and investments. Thus, they could enlarge means of production, change matrimonial status (first wife for ones, second, tird or fourth for others) and invest properties (building houses) or other activities like cattle, trade or transports. Socio-economic change has, also, pushed a large spatial mobility into the migratory space Saloum-Pata. This space integrate villages, cities, rural markets and two countries : Senegal and Gambia. For the migrants, this mobility is a way to consolidate the socio-economic change born from land accumulation and peanut culture. It's also a superior level of their migratory project.