Drawing on ethnographic research in Morocco among irregular migrants from Central and Western Africa, this article shifts the exploration of what it means to be political by examining how migrants’ political participation is entangled with their attempts to overcome the uncertainty inherent to their lives. Recent scholarship has exposed and decentered boundaries between the citizen and the illegal migrant, placing a prominent focus on migrants’ subjectivity and the radical potential of migrants’ protests. However, studies of migrants’ protests have often been limited to the “West.” Through an examination of the development of a migrants’ association in Morocco, I show how studies of migrants’ movements and protests must account for their multiple, uncertain, and sometimes seemingly contradictory claims and demands. Failing to do so risks curtailing any radical potential for political subjectivization and contributing further to migrants’ marginalization. The article illustrates how migrants’ aspirations cannot be reduced to regularization in a host country and, crucially, how hampered political agency is articulated with constricted mobility in a country closely cooperating with Europe in migration matters.

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“与秘密移徙作斗争”：撒哈拉以南移民的政治机构和摩洛哥的不确定性

借助摩洛哥对来自中非和西非的非正规移民的人种学研究，本文通过考察移民的政治参与如何与他们克服生活中固有的不确定性的纠缠在一起，改变了对政治意义的探索。最近的奖学金揭露了公民与非法移民之间的界限，并使之偏心，从而着重关注移民的主观性和移民抗议的巨大潜力。但是，对移民抗议活动的研究通常仅限于“西方”。通过对摩洛哥移民协会的发展的考察，我展示了对移民的运动和抗议的研究必须如何说明他们的多重，不确定，有时是矛盾的主张和要求。否则，有可能削弱政治主观化的任何根本潜力，并进一步加剧移民的边缘化。这篇文章说明了在东道国如何不能将移民的理想化为正规化，以及至关重要的是，在与欧洲紧密合作的移民问题上，如何限制政治机构的活动受限。