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Keywords: Médina de Sousse, label patrimoine mondial, motivations, parties prenantes

Research Framework : Within the framework of studies on ordinary relations to politics and that of migration studies, this work intends to study the classical object of political socializations within the family structure, by questioning the effects of legal constructions on them. Objectives : This article observes the contradictions that can arise within the family space (“family community”) due to the exclusion of some of its members from the “national community” because of their legal status. Methodology : This article is based on thirty narrative interviews conducted with descendants of North African immigrants aged 18 to 45 living in the Île-de-France region and having at least one parent born in a North African country. Results : According to our results, the different legal status of members of the same family does not have a restrictive effect on political transmissions, as they are part of a wider set of exchanges. However, adaptations and common strategies may be put in place by these members in situations where legal status is imposed as a constraint, particularly at the time of voting. Some categorizations resulting from legal constructs can be illustrated within the family space, such as the “good immigrant/bad immigrant”, and thus put family ties to the test. Conclusions : As with any problematic focused on an ethnic minority, the study of political socializations within North African families requires epistemological precautions. The legal status approach allowed us to limit the "culturalist" and "evolutionist" pitfalls. Moreover, an approach that considers political socializations in their global context offers the possibility of capturing elements of understanding of certain phenomena specific to immigrant families. Contribution : This work represents a first approach to the superposition of these two symbolic spaces. It would be interesting to continue the reflection started in this work, in order to disentangle more precisely what comes under primary socializations and what comes under the effects of legal status.

Keywords: socialisation, politique, politisation, ordinaire, famille, immigrée, Maghrébine, France, citoyenneté, nationalité, socialization, political, politicization, everyday, family, immigrant, North-African, France, citizenship, nationality, socialización, política, politización, ordinario, familia, inmigrante, Norteafricana, Francia, Ciudadanía, Nacionalidad

Religious conversion is a complex research subject that has aroused the interest of several disciplines. This monodisciplinary knowledge obscured its conception in its complex reality. It has also reinforced the power of categories reminiscent of holistic or individualistic approaches (power, reproduction, intention, rationality). The interactionist approach has contributed to the understanding of religious conversion, on the one hand. It has, on the other hand, reduced the temporality to a linearity which suggests that a possible religious conversion could occur punctually, in a “before-after” framework. The objective of this contribution is to think outside the box by observing the relationship of the psyche to religion through relational theory.

Keywords: Conversion religieuse, théorie relationnelle, relation causale, rationalité, psyché, individualisme méthodologique, holisme méthodologique, socialisation, Pierpaolo Donati, Simon Laflamme, Religious Conversion, Relational Theory, Causal Relation, Rationality, Psyche, Methodological Individualism, Methodological Holism, Socialization, Pierpaolo Donati, Simon Laflamme

The aim of this article is to explore the close interconnections between conversions to Pentecostalism in Kabylia and the logics of the subject's quest for empowerment, in a context of strong social and normative regulations. While the influence of evangelical movements and their global offensive on local groups has been widely exploited to account for conversions in Algeria, the aim here is to demonstrate that this reading grid is not sufficient to grasp the issues at stake in the emergence of a new ethic observed within a group driven by a need for self-care. We will try to focus the analysis on the process of individualization, a formulation that can be heuristic to analyse the religious not as an invariable entity, but as a social phenomenon with variable interpretations linked to space and time. In sum, this article allows us to see that, well beyond the change in representations and practices, the question of conversions provides a framework for analysing the agentivity of actors.

Keywords: Conversion, politique, religion, pentecôtisme, évangélisme, islam, Kabyles, Algérie, Conversion, Politics, Religion, Pentecostalism, Evangelicalism, Islam, Kabylia, Algeria

AbstractA Blind StareAnti-Clericalism as a Resuit of Excessive Universalist Humanism in AlgeriaThis article is about the extreme difficulty of the French to apprehend Islam since their encounter with it in Algeria at the beginning of the XIXth century. The central question here concems the specifie status given to religion in France since the French Revolution. More specifically, it tums around the complex links that the social sciences entertain with religion. The article focusses in particular on a model that deals with the oscillation between knowledge and non knowledge about Islam, which tends to minimize (or eradicate) Islam in North-Africa. This is more évident in the writings of the Republicans and the nativists than in those of the settlers and the right wing. It is illustrated in the fact that, during the War of Independence, the National Front of Liberation was seen as laical, repeating thereby the relation between the Christian left and the French Communist Party (1940-1945). The article identifies the roots of this repeated mis-recognition of Islam in a tenacious anti-clericalism whose nature is more cognitive than ideological. This anti-clericalism refers to three fears : the rejection of the Ancien Regime, the risks that religion could represent for the State and finally the positivism's refusai of belief, emotion and irrationality.Key words : Colonna, anti-clericalism. Islam, left Christians, social agents

AbstractBetween the Religious, the Legal and the Politic : The EthicsThoughts on the Nature of Moral Rigorism, as Promoted and Sanctioned by the GreaterKabylia Village AssembliesAs it was recently confirmed by local elections and the first round of general elections, neither the reconstruction of the identity fabric, nor the partisan political mobilization of a modem type, are led in Greater Kabylia, under the sign of the religious. The region, however, is also going through bursts of moral rigorism. This moral rigorism which, beyond the local activity of village communities, pervades the policital life in Kabylia, though seemingly close to the ethics of radical islamism, is very far from it in many respects. The multiplicity of legitimacy referents explicitely used by this rigorism as an excuse (the reference to local " traditions ", to gentility honour and to islam) shows, on the one hand, the atypism of Kabylia within contemporary Algeria and, on the other and, the diversity of possible political expressions of the rigorist ethics of the century in Algeria.Key words : Mahe, Kabylia, rigorism, social tie, ethics, public/private space

This article examines the contradiction at the heart of rentier states, which are divided between the need to radically reform an economy exclusively dependent on gas and oil and the waverings of the ruling elite, who wish to remain in power and thus reap virtually all the benefits of these resources. Drawing on the case of Algeria, this article reassesses the still vital contribution of the rentier state theory (despite critiques lodged against it) in explaining the region's unique political dynamics, particularly with regard to authoritarian resilience.

Keywords: État rentier, hydrocarbures, diversification économique, Algérie, autoritarisme, Rentier state, hydrocarbons, economic diversification, Algeria, authoritarianism, Estado rentista, hidrocarburos, diversificación económica, Argelia, autoritarismo

The question of irregular immigration is shaking up the countries on both shores of the Mediterranean today, because the migration phenomenon generates many human tragedies at each crossing of the sea, unacceptable for the conscience of humanity. The reality is that this immigration, because of its “clandestine” nature, continues to fuel the debates, both at European and Maghreb levels, or even at the African level. For Africa, from which successive migrant waves leave, it is a loss of valid arms for development. Irregular migration is of great concern to political leaders because of its scale and impact on transit and host countries. It would be the cause of social, political and security problems. The fear is that this immigration, considered as “risk-bearing”, constitutes a threat and a danger for the stability, the social cohesion and the identity of the host societies. This article analyzes the situation of migrants who are at odds with national laws on entry and residence in the receiving countries, and notes violations of their human rights at the stages of their trip. This requires legal protection in consideration of the human person, in accordance with the international law principles that recognize and outline rights for migrants and refugees.

Based on ethnographic data collected on the establishment of call centres in France and the Maghreb by a French insurance group, the article addresses the notion of 'voice', as an object and an analytical tool, to reveal the mechanisms for legitimizing the call centre workers' voice. It shows that the pursuit of an objective of economic profitability of the interaction through the professionalization, standardization, and delocalization of the employees' voice does not produce the expected effects. Phenomena of discrimination and domination act through and on these voices, inseparable from the social spaces in which they are produced and heard.

Keywords: voice, voix, call centres, centres d'appels, delocalization, délocalisation, discrimination, discrimination, France, France, Magreb, Magreb