Les manifestations des diplômés chômeurs au Maroc: La rue comme espace de négociation du tolérable

Abstract

This article describes how organised unemployed graduates in Morocco acquired visibility through street demonstrations, which often served to define the public image of this category of protestors as much as to ensure their demands to be hired by the civil service were met. The protests provided a stage for negotiations between the authorities and the demonstrators over the tolerable limits of collective expression of discontent. As a result, this form of action proved to be a vivid analyser of the concrete implications of the process of political liberalisation in this North African country.