Street youth groups (syg) in Morocco represent underground urban counterculture
where “class conflict” is being fed by lack of opportunities to climb the social ladder.
Indefinable and tormenting globalization (Montgomery, 2019; Wacquant, 2009) has
psychologically and socially transformed youth into social “victims”/dreamers of a
“modern” wellbeing. Social inequalities exacerbated by covid-19 pandemic produced
new precarious youths at the margins of “patronaged” neoliberal policies implemented
for ...
Street youth groups (syg) in Morocco represent underground urban counterculture
where “class conflict” is being fed by lack of opportunities to climb the social ladder.
Indefinable and tormenting globalization (Montgomery, 2019; Wacquant, 2009) has
psychologically and socially transformed youth into social “victims”/dreamers of a
“modern” wellbeing. Social inequalities exacerbated by covid-19 pandemic produced
new precarious youths at the margins of “patronaged” neoliberal policies implemented
for buying social peace policies. In this context, this paper is based on an ethnographic
research with “Tcharmil” Street youth in the neighborhood of Sidi Moussa in Sale,
twin city of the Capital Rabat known for urban violence in substandard housing. In
this paper, I argue that these “Mcharmlin” youth are resisting marginalization through
invading streets and imposing their “subculture” as a “non-movement” (Bayat, 2013)
against inequalities. These humans of Sidi Moussa who are young and poor, facing the
Atlantic and far from the Capital about 30 minutes behind walled ancient city of Sale
of Corsairs, dreaming of a stable life, job and respect from society, living in “Zanqa 0”.
Youth refusing nothingness are invading streets which do not have even a name as
all streets are numbered from 0 to 14. each narrow street faces the Atlantic either you
escape, or you get stuck if you turn your back on the Atlantic.
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