« Maroc, c’est le choc ! » : vulnérabilités extrêmes et tactiques de survie des migrants d'Afrique subsaharienne

Abstract

Being a foreign, black woman or man, suffering from cold, hunger and lack of security, with no recognized social existence: this is the experience of the migrants we followed during this survey in Morocco. What they have in common is that, at certain points in their stay, they have only one ultimate resource left: their own bodies. Based on an ethnographic survey conducted between 2016 and 2020 and the analysis of biographical material, this article proposes to revisit the lived experience of extreme vulnerability and the tactics considered to cope with it. It presents an analysis centered on migrants’ bodies conceived as surfaces on which “regimes of truth” are inscribed, as sites of domination and creative resistance.

Keywords

• vulnerability
• violence
• migration routes
• Morocco
• body
• continuum of violence