« La morgue, la forêt et le presbytère ». Articulations entre expérience migratoire et violence des frontières dans le Nord du Maroc
Drawing on the ethnographic observation of three singular spaces in northern Morocco – a morgue, a “forest” and a presbytery – the paper explores the interconnections between migration experience and border violence from the perspective of migrants themselves. It demonstrates that migrants face at l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Équipe Monde Arabe Méditerranée
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Les Cahiers d’EMAM |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/emam/4192 |
| Summary: | Drawing on the ethnographic observation of three singular spaces in northern Morocco – a morgue, a “forest” and a presbytery – the paper explores the interconnections between migration experience and border violence from the perspective of migrants themselves. It demonstrates that migrants face at least three forms of border violence, emerging all at once from state control, networks of irregular migration, and humanitarianism. However, rather than being articulated in a cumulative relationship, these different forms of violence converge and reinforce each other within a continuum which permeates the migration trajectory. Migrants, for their part, are not mere objects of this continuum. Not only do they define practices to counter its effects – even if it means generating violence against their peers – but they also reinterpret the experience of violence in moral narratives that value risks in migration, while not naturalizing their exposure to death at the border. Migrants are thus actors in their own right of the “manufacture” of both the border and its composing violence, whether they oppose, or appropriate its effects. |
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| ISSN: | 1969-248X 2102-6416 |