Entre ancrages temporaires et mobilités saisonnières : l'installation permanente des travailleurs mobiles du tourisme sur le littoral atlantique

Abstract

From an ethnographic study in a small seaside village on the Landes coast, this article analyzes the differentiated place of mobile seasonal tourism employees in the social production of the coastal space. It shows how, on a synchronic and diachronic level, they add to the social morphology of the "resort" where they temporarily reside for work purposes, through their presence and trajectory of life. From this perspective, a typology of the ways of living in the summer seasonal space-time is first established, to be then considered with regard to the permanent residential trajectory of some of these tourism workers in the Atlantic coastal region. This approach allows us to highlight both the particular and evolutionary role of seasonal workers in the life of the place that they occupy provisionally to conduct their activity, and also the role of this experience in the formation process of their way of being, of doing and of thinking at the same time. It finally invites us to comprehend the process of populating the Atlantic coastal region as a reflection of different life trajectories determining the contrasting relationships between the practical and symbolic in this space.

Keywords

• seasonal worker
• seaside resort
• France
• aquitaine coast
• social morphology
• way of living