Volume 30, Issue 2, May 2017, Pages 314–325
ABDOU Harou1
1 Département de Géographie, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Zinder, BP : 656, Zinder, Niger
Original language: French
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This research established the socioeconomic profile of mendicants and analyzed the socio-economic, cultural and political causes of female begging in the town of Zinder. A documentary work and a field survey allowed the collection of qualitative and quantitative data. The survey used a questionnaire administered to 100 beggars and a maintenance guide that involved 10 imams of the large Zinder mosques. The statistical data thus obtained were used to produce tables and figures for the illustrations. Fieldwork also resorted to direct observation, which helped to identify districts housing beggars and places of begging mapped using geographic coordinates. The results of the study show that poverty, disability, the resignation of husbands, social and political tolerance, lack of solidarity of the State etc. Are all reasons leading women to begging. To these causes is added the search for easy gain benefiting from a socioreligious context favorable to the practice of almsgiving. Hence the tendency towards the professionalization of begging, which is banned by Islam and prohibited by the Nigerian penal code.
Author Keywords: female begging, poverty, town, Zinder, State.
ABDOU Harou1
1 Département de Géographie, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Zinder, BP : 656, Zinder, Niger
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This research established the socioeconomic profile of mendicants and analyzed the socio-economic, cultural and political causes of female begging in the town of Zinder. A documentary work and a field survey allowed the collection of qualitative and quantitative data. The survey used a questionnaire administered to 100 beggars and a maintenance guide that involved 10 imams of the large Zinder mosques. The statistical data thus obtained were used to produce tables and figures for the illustrations. Fieldwork also resorted to direct observation, which helped to identify districts housing beggars and places of begging mapped using geographic coordinates. The results of the study show that poverty, disability, the resignation of husbands, social and political tolerance, lack of solidarity of the State etc. Are all reasons leading women to begging. To these causes is added the search for easy gain benefiting from a socioreligious context favorable to the practice of almsgiving. Hence the tendency towards the professionalization of begging, which is banned by Islam and prohibited by the Nigerian penal code.
Author Keywords: female begging, poverty, town, Zinder, State.
Abstract: (french)
Cette recherche a établi le profil des mendiantes et analysé les causes socioéconomiques, culturelles et politiques de la mendicité féminine dans la ville de Zinder. Un travail documentaire et une enquête de terrain ont permis le recueil des données qualitatives et quantitatives. L’enquête a utilisé un questionnaire administré auprès de 100 mendiantes et un guide d’entretien qui a concerné 10 imams des grandes mosquées de Zinder. Les données statistiques ainsi obtenues ont servi à l’élaboration de tableaux et figures pour les illustrations. Le travail de terrain a recouru aussi à l’observation directe qui a aidé au repérage des quartiers abritant les mendiantes et des lieux de mendicité cartographiés à l’aide des coordonnées géographiques prises. Les résultats de l’étude montrent que la pauvreté, le handicap, la démission des maris, la tolérance sociale et politique, l’absence de la solidarité de l’Etat, etc. sont autant de motifs conduisant les femmes à la mendicité. A ces causes s’ajoutent la recherche du gain facile profitant d’un contexte socioreligieux favorable à la pratique de l’aumône. D’où la tendance à la professionnalisation de la mendicité pourtant bannie par l’islam et interdite par le code pénal nigérien.
Author Keywords: mendicité féminine, pauvreté, ville, Zinder, Etat.
How to Cite this Article
ABDOU Harou, “La mendicité féminine dans la ville de Zinder (Niger),” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 314–325, May 2017.
