Mali Emigration and Immigration

Online Sources

 * 1864-1917 France National Overseas Archives, French Sudan French Sudan was set up as a colony in 1892. It successively took the names of Territory of Upper Senegal and Middle Niger (1898-1902), Territory of Senegambia and Niger (1904) and French Sudan in 1920. It gained independence in 1960 and then took the name of Mali.
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Mali, index & images ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Mali, index & images ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, Mali, index & images ($)

Mali Emigration and Immigration
"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country. Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration into Mali

 * Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire (for which Ghana is named), the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire covered an area about twice the size of modern-day France and stretched to the west coast of Africa.
 * In the late 19th century, during the "Scramble for Africa", France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan.
 * French Sudan (then known as the Sudanese Republic) joined with Senegal in 1959, achieving independence in 1960 as the Mali Federation. Shortly thereafter, following Senegal's withdrawal from the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itself the independent Republic of Mali.
 * An estimated 800,000 people in Mali are descended from slaves. Slavery in Mali has persisted for centuries. The Arabic population kept slaves well into the 20th century, until slavery was suppressed by French authorities around the mid-20th century.
 * Mixed European/African descendants of Muslims of Spanish, as well some French, Irish, Italian and Portuguese origins live in Mali, they are known as the Arma people.

Emigration From Mali
KNOMAD Statistics:' Emigrants: 895,700. Top destination countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, France, Gabon, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal, the Republic of Congo, Spain.