LE DON ET LA DETTE CHEZ LES INTELLEGENTSIAS ALGÉRIENNES DIASPORIQUES

Abstract

We propose in this contribution the study of the socio-professional commitment of the Algerian diasporic intelligentsias towards their native country through the analysis of four elements structuring the problematic of the dynamics of the gift and the debt in this social category. It is a transactional social process that has been achieved through four founding moments (ages) and which is an epistemological break with scientistic rationalism, dealing with one of the aspects of the "brain drain" problematic, in particular the question of returns to Algeria. For this purpose, the study's approach is the deconstruction of migratory stories as lived (representations-attitudes), where a set of subjective and objective determinants mingle allow to understand the complexity of the phenomenon of departures and returns in contemporary Algeria. From this point of view, the production of Meaning that the individuals-migrants give to the history of their experience can only be the product of the historical conditions of the whole society.