"There are talibés and talibés": Exploring the boundaries of the category of talibés who beg.

Autor: Macleod SL; Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Electronic address: shona_macleod@soas.ac.uk.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child abuse & neglect [Child Abuse Negl] 2023 May; Vol. 139, pp. 105422. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 08.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105422
Abstrakt: Background: In Dakar and other urban centres in Senegal, young boys begging in the streets are commonly assumed to be talibés, or students of the Qur'an.
Objective: This study intends to explore the boundaries of the discursive construction of talibés (who beg) in Senegal.
Participants and Setting: 72 participants including Qur'anic teachers, staff and volunteers of international, national and local NGOs and associations, and representatives of state structures and international institutions, in Dakar, Rufisque and Saint Louis, Senegal.
Methods: This qualitative study is based on doctoral field research conducted during the period of October 2017-July 2018. The main method of enquiry was semi-structured interviews and group discussions (n = 62), supplemented with observation and document review.
Results: The findings demonstrate the following themes: firstly, the category of talibé is often assumed to refer to those who beg, despite recognition that many children studying the Qur'an do not beg. Secondly, children who are assumed not to be learning the Qur'an are frequently still labelled as talibés. Thirdly, talibés who beg are differentiated from other boys who beg on the basis of assumptions of criminality (of others) and control (over talibés).
Conclusions: Although talibé is understood to mean student of the Qur'an, those who beg all day and purportedly do not learn the Qur'an at all have come to be the dominant representation of a talibé used in development discourse. This has implications for the collection of data about these children as well as the interventions designed in response to this problematisation.
(Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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