Political Market and Constraints on Access to Employment among Youth: Case of the District of Abidjan

Abstract

This article analyses the link between the social imaginaries of professional integration and the employment situation of young people in the District of Abidjan. Thus, the interviews analysed in the light of the theory of the strategic actor revealed that the social imaginaries of the professional integration of young people consist of a salaried relationship. In this logic, the latter invite themselves into the political market by offering their militancy in exchange for paid work. But thy disillusionment as a result of political marketing at work and poorly kept promises; what helps to keep them unemployed. This production invites reflection on the preliminary actions to be taken for young people before any investment oriented towards entrepreneurship. Similarly, it questions the interest of the involvement of young people in the democratic game.