Insecurity and Foreign Crime in Maroua (Cameroon)

Abstract

Migration, an old phenomenon, is today at the heart of the news in the whole world. It is of interest to government decision-makers, non-profit organizations governments and scientists. During this century, it took on proportions worrying. A complex phenomenon, migration involves advantages and disadvantages for the reception area. Confronted with an immigration often felt as uncontrolled, the reception areas are plagued by several evils among which the security issues. Thus, immigration is perceived as a criminogenic factor. The foreign crime is all forms of violence that undermine the integrity human perpetrated by foreigners in a given space. Ecological crises and conflicts explain the departures of large population flows, if even other motives exist. In our time, the provincial metropolises of North Cameroon in general and the city of Maroua in particular, because of its proximity to the border, hosts a good number of migrants of various nationalities: Chadians, Nigerians, Central Africans, etc. This coming foreigners, especially those who fled civil wars, is not without consequence on the security stability of the city. The population has doubled and insecurity becomes currency current. This theme correlates the flow of foreigners in the city of Maroua and insecurity became ambient. The fundamental problem is to show how the migration of foreigners in a city like Maroua poses the problem of human insecurity.