Les enjeux de l'amazighité au Maroc

Mous, Fadma Aït

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“…The stratification of Moroccan society along racial hierarchies was further accompanied by a process of divide et impera adopted by the French colonisers to 'pacify' dissident areas and bring them under central state rule. Such strategies relied on the purposeful essentialisation of the distinction between Arabs and Berbers (Wyrtzen 2016; see Aït Mous 2011).…”

Section: Race and The Making Of The Spanish-moroccan Bordermentioning

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Looking into the border. Whiteness, (un)desirable encounters and research containment at the Spanish–Moroccan border

Gazzotti

2023

Libyan Stud

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How is the white researcher perceived by the border apparatus? What does this interaction say about the border itself? Ethnographic research has framed such questions as a debate on ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ in fieldwork. This is problematic, as it assumes that a researcher can really be ‘external’ to the social worlds they investigate, as if the field site existed in isolation from transnational processes of racialised extraction. This paper challenges such an assumption by arguing that the white researcher cannot be an ‘outsider’ to the North African border: they approach it as the beneficiaries of a system of colonial and capital extractivism that feeds itself through migration control. I build on Ahmed's work on white phenomenology to analyse how various border workers perceived, made sense of and reacted to my presence as a white European woman at three different sites on the Spanish–Moroccan border. I argue that the white researcher is an expected presence at the border, as the accumulated history of (post)colonial encounters leads them where others have been before. Although whiteness opens doors, only a certain kind of performed whiteness remains welcome in the borderscape. The white researcher who appears not to be aligning with or supporting the premises of migration control is perceived by border workers as a potentially disruptive presence, and contained in different ways.

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Section: Race and The Making Of The Spanish-moroccan Bordermentioning

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Looking into the border. Whiteness, (un)desirable encounters and research containment at the Spanish–Moroccan border

Gazzotti

2023

Libyan Stud

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“…As part of its strategy to ‘pacify’ dissident areas ( blad al-siba ) and bring them under central state rule, the French colonizers relied on a strategy of divide et impera that purposefully essentialized and opposed the distinction between Arabs and Berbers. This hierarchization was further reinforced by the development of a nationalist movement promoting Arabic and Islam as the main markers of Moroccan identity (Wyrtzen, 2016) – and the parallel emergence of movements reclaiming the recognition of Amazigh identity as an integral part of Moroccan history and present (Aït Mous, 2011). The North–South migration of Europeans from the metropole to the colony also durably reinforced whiteness as the incarnation of privilege.…”

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(Un)making illegality: Border control, racialized bodies and differential regimes of illegality in Morocco

Gazzotti

2021

The Sociological Review

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What role does race play in the construction of illegality in the face of pervasive border control? Sociologists and anthropologists of migration have apprehended illegality as a constructed category, produced by immigration policies and laws aimed at ‘illegalizing’ established mobility flows. ‘Illegality’ operates as an exclusionary category not only because it is constructed by law, but also because it is activated by racialized forms of prejudice which structure societies according to hierarchies of dangerousness, visibility and deservedness. Scholars, however, have tended to examine the entanglement between race and illegality by focusing mostly on the experience of black and brown people, especially those coming from poor countries in the Global South, thus overlooking how whiteness influences and alters the workings of border control. Drawing on qualitative data gathered between 2013 and 2019 in Morocco, this article questions the category of ‘illegality’ as it is policed at the street level and experienced by different groups of foreigners in Morocco. Building on Sara Ahmed’s understanding of whiteness as an ‘orientation’, in this article the author argues that illegality is a label which is racially altered and expanded by border bureaucrats, who use it to differentially police the presence of migrant bodies pre-emptively visualized as legal or illegal. Whereas black people undergo pervasive containment procedures, white privilege allows white migrants to be oblivious of the border, even when their administrative situation is not compliant with migration law.

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Social Change and Generational Disparity: Education, Violence, and Precariousness in the Life Story of a Young Moroccan Activist

Schwarz

2021

Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation

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This chapter illustrates how social change can be assessed in biographical research by methodologically focusing on processes of intergenerational transmission in interviewees’ life stories, not only within the family but also in educational institutions and other contexts. The author illustrates this by reconstructing the political socialization and politicization of a young activist in Morocco’s Unemployed Graduates Movement and Amazigh Movement. Life stories not only allow long periods of social time and the historicity of social processes to be taken into account but also shed light on the conflicts that young people have to tackle before they can claim to be adults as defined in their particular social contexts. From this perspective, social change and the reconfiguration of power relations depend to a great extent on how societies organize and broker the transition to adulthood, and what particular type of young individuals are granted by their position at the intersections of class, gender, and ethnicity. By assessing the interviewees’ reinterpretation of the experiences, narratives, and traditions passed down to them by the older generation and reconstructing how they position themselves in a generation or generational unit, social change and the formation of new social and political subjectivities become empirically accessible as narrated patterns of social interaction.

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Les enjeux de l'amazighité au Maroc

Cited by 17 publications

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Looking into the border. Whiteness, (un)desirable encounters and research containment at the Spanish–Moroccan border

Looking into the border. Whiteness, (un)desirable encounters and research containment at the Spanish–Moroccan border

(Un)making illegality: Border control, racialized bodies and differential regimes of illegality in Morocco

Social Change and Generational Disparity: Education, Violence, and Precariousness in the Life Story of a Young Moroccan Activist

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