This paper wants to approach to this forced return of Niameyzé, trying to treat the reconfiguration of this urban collective identity, who is used to stratify and distinct from rural migrants in a country where the gap between both environments is huge. They use their experience in Libya and their perfomative “cosmopolitism” to try to obtain the “development rent”, which are subventions from international cooperation. It is a flow with specific characteristics and it qualifies itself as Niameyzé, which refers to “authentic” citizens from Niamey. This new collective worked as a non-qualified workforce in multinationals and public companies during their life in Gadafi’s country. However, they assumed the failure of their migration plan with certain privileged circumstances, as a result of their urban feature and experience in Libyan cities. Libya’s war in 2011 caused their return in vulnerable conditions, in the same condition as circular rural movements. They did it with a different project, more “individualist” and conceived in “capitalist” and “modernist” way. After different migration flows from rural nigeriens areas, people from Niamey join the way to Libya during the 2000s. During decades, Gaddafi’s Libya was like Eldorado for thousands of economic migrants from a fragile country as Niger.
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