BENARROSH Yolande
Contact details
Functions
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, AMU - Université Aix-Marseille
Associate researcher at LISE-CNAM
On CNRS delegation 2017-18 (sections 40 and 36)
Academic work
The world of industrial workers in Morocco. Family transformations due to internal migrations of workers and singles. Comparisons Tangier / Kenitra / Casablanca
Urban transformations in Morocco as a result of multinational industrial installations and internal and external migration. Comparisons Tangier / Kenitra / Casablanca
Colonial labour and its aftermath in Morocco (Project underway at LISE-CNAM as part of GIS-GESTES)
Entrepreneurship on both shores of the Mediterranean (with the LISE-CNAM research group of the same name)
"Morocco in economic and political globalisation. From an employment policy managed by the State to social policies delegated to individuals, via 'civil society' - Ethno-monography of the reconversion of a northern province". Research still in progress relating to the CNRS Delegation 2017/18 (sections 40 and 36), with an NGO in Tangiers.
Areas of research
Current issues of 'development' in a globalised world; transpositions and adaptations of institutional, social and employment models
Analysis of work in action; meanings of work and experiences of unemployment; institutions managing the unemployed: analysis of work and discourse, criteria for categorising the public
Ongoing research in Morocco on Tangier as a laboratory for globalisation: internal and external migration, free zones and multinational industries, issues relating to the extension of the wage model and the process of metropolisation of the city.
Doctoral supervision
as part of Doctoral School 355 Spaces, Cultures, Societies.
Scientific coordinator, programme manager
Member of the HCERES visiting committee MSH PARIS NORD (February 2018)
Member of the HCERES visiting committee MSH PARIS NORD (February 2018)
Member of the CNRS "Sociology and Economics" GDR
Member of RT23 of the AFS (Work and Activity)
Member of RT23 of the AFS (Work and Activity)
Member of the editorial committee of the MAUSS review
Member of the editorial board of the journal Ergologia (Institut d'Ergologie, Univervité Aix-Marseille)
Productions
Publications
- Les sens du travail. Migration, reconversion, chômage, PUR - Presses universitaires de Rennes, coll. "Le sens social", 2014.
- Receiving the unemployed at the ANPE. L'institution entre don et contrat. L'harmattan, 2006.
- Trabalho, Emprego e Cidadania, (with Claudine Leleu), Editions Palha de Abrantes, Portugal, 2001.
Management of works
- (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb. Approches interdisciplinaires, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- (ed.) L'autre Tanger, with S. Benmoussa, O. Belkheiri and H. Bekkari, Marsam Rabat Morocco (+ planned French co-edition), 2020 (forthcoming)
Book chapters
- Internal migrants and European migrants in Tangier. Présence-absence d'une ville 'choisie' et individualisations des modes de vie" in S. Monqid and A. Hammouche (eds.), Espaces transformés et questions de genre dans le monde arabe et méditerranéen, (forthcoming 2020).
- "Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb. Approches interdisciplinaires - introduction générale" in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- Tangier: globalisation, migration, urbanisation. Une ville qui pousse, des politiques qui suivent. Images et repérages", with O. Belkheiri, S. Ben Moussa, H. Bekkari, in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- Transformations industrielles et territoriales de la région Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima : Déséquilibres et durabilité en questions", with O. Belkheiri, in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- Tanger dans la mondialisation du 21e siècle à travers ses habitants", in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- Migrations de travail célibataires à Tanger. What processes of individualisation? Une comparaison femmes-hommes, puis entre femmes", in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- Questions posed by the transfer of unemployment management technologies. L'exemple de l'agence de l'emploi marocaine sur le modèle de l'ex-Anpe française", with O. Belkheiri, in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- Passer d'un mode de vie à un métier. La " grande transformation " chez les éleveurs de l'Oriental (Maroc), M. Tozy - interview with Y. Benarrosh", in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- Categories of the North, realities of the South. Quelles dissonances et quelles traductions possibles sur le terrain du travail social", S. Ben Moussa and S. Bisbis, interview with Y. Benarrosh. Bisbis, interview with Y. Benarrosh, in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- Le Maghreb, quelles voies de développement, conclusion générale" in Benarrosh Y. (dir), Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, co-edition France Maroc CJB/La croisée des chemins/IRD, 2019.
- The unemployed, their institutions and work. Norms, usages and beliefs". Chapter 5 in F. Eymard-Duvernay (ed.), Travail et chômage, Octarès, 2012.
- Por uma analise do trabalho a partir das instituições francesas de Intermediação", Chapter 11, in N.A. Guimares, H. Hirata, K. Sugita (eds.), Trabalho flexivel, empregos precarios. Uma comparação Japão, França, Brasil, EDUSP ed, São Paulo, Brazil, 2010.
- Le travail vu du chômage, une comparaison hommes - femmes, français(e)s et migrant(e)s." in Danièle Meulders (ed), Marché du travail et genre dans les pays du Maghreb. Quels marchés du travail, Documents du MAGE N°11, 2007 (p.101-130).
- Individu et travail", contribution to the collective work Initiative individuelle et formation, co-publication CNAM - L'Harmattan, coll. Logiques sociales - Cahiers du GRIOT F. Berton, M. Correia, C. Lespessailles, M. Maillebouis, eds, 2004. (Pages 69-83)
- Perte d'emploi et reconversion : " faire parler " l'expérience ", in A.F. Garçon et al (dir), Démolition, disparition, déconstruction. Approches techno-économiques et anthropologiques. Documents pour l'histoire des techniques, Cahier n°11, CNAM- EHESS-CDHT (Centre d'histoires des techniques), 2002, (Pages 129-142).
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
– "Tangier through its peopleEsprit magazine, 2019/6, June.
- "Industrial and territorial transformations in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region. Déséquilibres et durabilité en questions", with O. Belkheiri, Critique économique, n°38-39, Rabat, 2019.
- "The institutional production of unemployment and wage employment in Morocco? Transfert d'une technologie de service public 'clés en mains'" , with Omar Belkheiri, Critique économique, Rabat, Autumn 2015.
- Inactivity traps": voluntary unemployment or resistance unemployment? Travail et Emploi n° 95, July, 2003. (Pages 73-86).
- Les trappes à chômage revisitées", Problèmes économiques no. 2833, Les politiques anti-pauvreté ont-elles réussées, November. Pages 1-6, 2003.
- Le travail : norme et signification", in Travailler est-il (bien) naturel ? Le travail après la 'fin du travail', Revue du M.A.U.S.S. n°18, 2nd semester, 2001.
- Sorting the unemployed and consensus among employment stakeholders. Towards an approach to "inemployability traps"? Travail et emploi n°81, January, 2000 (Pages 9-26)
- La notion de transfert de compétences à l'épreuve de l'observation, Travail et Emploi No. 78, January 1999, Pages 53-66
Coordination of scientific events (conferences, study days)
- 2015 Benarrosh Y., Coordination and introduction of the two international study days to close the ATRI 1 "RTM-IPEM": Rapports de et au travail dans la mondialisation. Implantations et partenariats d'entreprises au Maghreb. 26-27 November, MMSH Aix-en-Provence (some fifteen speakers: France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia).
- 2015 Benarrosh Y., Organisation and introduction of the annual study day for AMU/MMSH inter-laboratory masters and doctoral students: guest Albert Ogien, DR CNRS and director of the Institut Marcel Mauss EHESS. 11 December 2015, MMSH Aix-en-Provence
- 2014 Benarrosh Y., Coordination and introduction of the launch seminar of the programme "Rapports de et au travail dans la mondialisation"; Theme of the day: implantations d'industries multinationales et politiques sociales au Maroc. Tangier, Université Abdelmalek Essaadi, Faculté des sciences économiques, juridiques et sociales, 23 October.
- 2014 Benarrosh Y., Organisation and introduction of the annual study day of AMU/MMSH inter-laboratory masters and doctoral students: guest Alain Caillé, professor of sociology emeritus and director of the MAUSS journal. 12 December 2014, MMSH Aix-en-Provence
- 2012 Benarrosh Y., Organisation and introduction of the annual study day for AMU/MMSH inter-laboratory masters and doctoral students: guest Cyril Lemieux, director of studies at EHESS, 14 December 2012, MMSH Aix-en-Provence.
Conferences
- 2020, guest speaker, SIEL (salon international de l'édition et du livre) Casablanca, presentation of the book Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb à travers la démarche globale retenue - 15 February 2020, with Nadia Benabdeljlil (co-author), in the presence of Samira Mizbar (economist) and Hicham Falah (documentary filmmaker).
- 2019, Speech with Alain Piveteau (IRD PRODIG) - "Quelles perspectives pour le travail et le salariat au Maroc? Eléments de réflexion et d'analyse" and presentation of the book Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, approches interdisciplinaires - Hommage à Mohamed Madoui (ed. La Croisée des chemins, IRD, CJB) International colloquium - Etat-Nation, mondialisation et modèles de développement, 17-18 October, Mohamed V University, Rabat (Morocco).
- 2019, guest speaker, Oujda Book Fair (Morocco): "Transformations du travail, transformations des modes de vie. Focus sur les régions de l'Oriental et du Nord marocain" to mark the publication of the book : Le travail Mondialisé au Maghreb - 15 October, with Alain Piveteau (co-author).
- 2019, Speech - "Universal heritage and heritage of the inhabitants - Internal migrations and urban explosions. What continuum and what possible transmissions?", at the Journées d'études - La faisabilité de l'inscription du bassin de l'Oued Noun dans la liste du Patrimoine mondial de l'Humanité (UNESCO), Académie du Royaume du Maroc, Rabat, organised by the Académie du Royaume du Maroc, the Institut national des sciences de l'archéologie et du patrimoine (INSAP) and the Direction du patrimoine (Ministère de la Culture), 27 September.
- 2018, "Quand les "informateurs" mènent (aussi) l'enquête et prennent (aussi) la plume", GIS - MOMM (Moyen Orient et Mondes arabes et musulmans) conference on the theme (D') Ecrire les mondes arabes et musulmans au 21e siècle, Aix-en-Provence, 28/09 to 4/10.
- 2019, "Where and how do I live? Sharpening memories and views by taking and commenting on photos. Young people and adults recounting their past-present in an 'informal' neighbourhood of Tangier", SVF (Sociologie visuelle et filmique) conference on "Image and memory", Rabat Morocco, 25 and 26 April.
- 2018, guest speaker, "Tanger laboratoire de la mondialisation", Part V of the forthcoming book Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb (2019), presentation and discussion as part of the Round Table on "La mondialisation vue de la région Nord du Maroc". Printemps du livre et des arts de Tanger, 22nd edition from 19 to 22 April 18, with Nadia Benabdeljlil and Omar Belkheiri, co-authors.
- 2017, "Femmes seules migrantes à Tanger. Quels processus d'individuation?", paper at the OTMA -Cist/Ined/Ird- (Observatoire des transformations dans le monde arabe) final conference: 2011 in the Arab world: stage, turning point or rupture? Ecole nationale d'architecture Paris Val-de-Seine, 28-29 June.
- 2017, "Les sens du travail dans les situations de transition et d'inter-culturation. Travailleurs marocains des 'zones franches'", Paper presented at the NRP - Nouvelle revue de Psychosociologie, L'individu pluriel. Enjeux actuels de la construction de soi au travail, Toulouse, 20 January (Theme of NRP 2016 No. 22).
- 2016, Chair of session and discussions, AISLF Congress, 7th RéDOC Spring University, chair of a doctoral workshop and discussant in two other workshops. Marrakech, 20-25 March (see also invited lectures)
- 2016, "Migrantes internes et migrantes européennes à Tanger. Présence-absence d'une ville 'choisie'", paper presented at the colloquium Espaces transformés et questions de genre dans le monde arabe et méditerranéen, CEAO/Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, 24/25 Nov (forthcoming in the book of the same title, S. Monqid and A. Hammouche (dir).
- 2016, guest speaker at the 20th Tangiers International Book and Arts Fair (SILTA) on the theme "Tangiers. City of fantasy, city of reality". Lecture as part of a round table on Tangier, city of migration. Theme of my talk: "Seizing an urban future through two worlds that ignore each other. A survey of internal and European migrants", Tangier, 4-8 May.
- 2016, guest lecturer , 7th Spring University of the Rédoc of the AISLF, Theme of the Rédoc: "Sociology at the challenge of the transformations of the social bond. Questions of method. YB Plenary lecture: "Observing change as a sociologist? Which methods for which objects... In which contexts?", Marrackech, 21-25 March
- 2015, guest lecturer, "Enquêter auprès des migrantes ouvriers à Tanger : du douar à la grande ville, des champs à l'usine", lecture given at the invitation of the "Master Genre", Université A. Essaadi University, Tangiers, 3 March
- 2014 Benarrosh Y., International closing conference of the ANR ZOGRIS and CRITERE on the theme "Le travail hors-norme". Paper on the theme: "Le salariat classique comme modèle de mise au travail au Maroc? Des réalités internes et externes qui interrogent...", Université Paris-Diderot - CESMASS and IRD, 6-7 November.
- 2013 Benarrosh Y., Colloque international 1 - "Villes à venir. Marseille, Istanbul, Hamburg, Tangiers. Le grand récit de la ville" organised by the Institut français d'études anatoliennes (IFEA), the Centre Franco-Allemand d'Aix-en-Provence, the Orient institut d'Istanbul. Com YB: Tangier in a globalised world. New realities, new inhabitants and the reworking of city myths", Istanbul 8-9 March 2013.
- 2013 Benarrosh Y., Colloque international 2 - "Villes à venir. Marseille, Istanbul, Hamburg, Tangiers. Fabriquer la ville" organised by CFA Aix-en-Provence, Les amis du rois des Aulnes and la Friche de la Belle de Mai. YB moderates a round table on the theme of "Cities and social links". Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, 25-26 October
Study day
- 2015 Benarrosh Y., Journée d'étude internationale IEDES et DIAL Paris Dauphine "Le travail dans les pays du Sud", com YB : "Travail et emploi au Maroc. Institutions, representations and statistical categories", IRD/IEDES Paris, 30 September
- 2015 Benarrosh Y., Journées d'étude internationales sur le theme "Travail et mondialisation au Magrheb", Clôture l'ATRI RTM-IPEM, MMSH Aix-en-Provence, 26-27 November. Closing of the ATRI RTM-IPEM, MMSH Aix-en-Provence, 26-27 November, 4 YB papers in this context:
- Opening session: "The origins of ATRI: a thematic and disciplinary jigsaw puzzle. From Tangier World to Tangier-Med, from one world city to another".
- Survey and photographic report on the lives of workers, their homes and neighbourhoods, and their workplaces in old and new industrial plants (with S. Benmoussa and O. Belkheiri)
- Young Moroccan men and women migrants to Tangier: their relationship to work and the paid labour market. Changes in lifestyles and expectations. Comparison between men and women; graduates/unemployed/workers.
- Two "mirror" surveys. Employment institutions and employers' expectations. International standards and encounters between North/South work cultures. Surveys at Anapec and among HRDs in the free zone and Tangier Med (with O. Belkheiri)
- 2014 Benarrosh Y., Journées d'études internationales de l'ATRI TRAMED: Les problématiques du travail dans l'espace méditerranéen en crise. Coordination Paul Bouffartigue and Annie Lamanthe, LEST, 2013-2014: YB Contributions: 20-21 November 2014:
- Introduction to the thematic area: Labour law and employment policies in southern Mediterranean countries
- Paper: "Labour law and the realities of salaried employment and social protection in Morocco".
- 2014 Benarrosh Y., bi-annual international study days of the ANR "CRITERES", IRD/IEDES-Paris, on the theme of "Comparative methodologies": YB paper on the theme: "Epistemological reflections on the transposition of a France/Morocco survey protocol on an apparently similar subject", 24 January.
- 2014 Benarrosh Y., bi-annual international study days of the ANR "CRITERES", IRD/IEDES-Paris, on the theme l'Etat, les institutions et les individus dans les Suds. Communication YB on the theme: "Relations du public aux institutions: quelles actions en retour, à quelles conditions? The case of employment institutions in France and Morocco, 23-24 May.
- 2013 Benarrosh Y., bi-annual international study days of the ANR "CRITERES", IRD/IEDES-Paris, Paper on "Transferts de politiques et de catégories cognitives Nord/Sud. Le cas des politiques de l'emploi France-Maroc", 30-31 January
- 2013 Benarrosh Y., bi-annual international study days of the ANR "CRITERES", IRD/IEDES-Paris, Communication on the theme: "Can we transfer an institution without its history? Adoption of the ANPE-Pôle Emploi model in Morocco with Anapec", 30-31 May.
- 2013, Benarrosh Y. ATRI LabexMed Exiformam 2012-2013: International expertise and vocational training reforms in the Maghreb. Coordination Eric Verdier, Lest Aix-en-Provence. 2012-2013: 2 international days: Aix en Provence and Rabat. Communications YB :
- Exportation de la norme " compétence " dans la politique de l'emploi au Maroc" ; Aix-en-Provence MMSH, Jounrées des 11-12 avril 2013
- "ANPE-Pôle Emploi France/ANAPEC Morocco: what imports and institutional appropriations are possible? International seminar"; Rabat OFPPT, 9-10 December 2013.
- 2012 Benarrosh Y., bi-annual international study days of the ANR "CRITERES" on the theme Gender and Work. Com. YB: "Places du travail comparaisons hommes-femmes et comparaison France/Maroc", IRD/IEDES-Paris, 26-27 January.
- 2012 Benarrosh Y., bi-annual international study days of the ANR "CRITERES" on the theme "Statuts du travail et de l'emploi dans les Suds". Com. YB "Comment définir un chômeur sans droit aux allocations de chômage? Le cas du Maroc" :, IRD/IEDES-Paris, 23-24 May
- 2011 Benarrosh Y., biannual international study days of the ANR "CRITERES" on the theme Les mots du travail. Paper: "Les lexiques et les sens du travail selon les âges et les cultures. Exemples comparés Maroc/France", IRD/IEDES-Paris, 12-13 January.
- 2011 Benarrosh Y., biannual international study days of the ANR "CRITERES" on the theme: "Les politiques de l'emploi : comparaisons Nords/Suds". Paper: "Politiques d'emploi et catégorisation des publics. Comparaison France/Maroc", IRD/IEDES-Paris, 25- 26 May.
Forums, congresses, international seminars, research workshops
- International seminar on Families, Societies and States in the Arab world, Turkey and Iran. Com. YB on "Migrations de travail célibataires à Tanger. What impact on family life?", as part of the ISSM (famille monde arabe), 11 March 2020.
- Atelier d'anthropologie Urbaine - Portraits casaouis (CJB Rabat and Dépt. Sociologie Aïn Chock, Casa). Coordinated by Fadma Aït Mouss, Leila Bouasria, and Anouk Cohen. Casablanca à travers un portrait/un métier - As part of the 2nd volume on Casablanca (Karthala 2016). "Les transformations du quartier de Sidi Moumen (Casa) à travers 2 portraits et 2 métiers croisés" (YB with Sana Benbelli).
- At the CJB (INAU - Institut national d'aménagement et d'urbanisme/CJB workshop): YB (with Aziz Iraki): on part V of the book Le travail mondialisé and on the forthcoming book L'autre Tanger.
- Seminar by J-Y Moisseron/Cesmass-Ird (University of Paris Diderot): The issue of work and social protection policies in the Maghreb. Comparisons.
- TARICA ERC seminar (Paris-Diderot): presentation of the book Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb, discussed by Alia Gani
- Happy Hours at the Lise Cnam: session programmed around the book "Le travail mondialisé" (Globalised work)
- Aix-en-Provence interlaboratory seminar: Presentation of the book Le travail mondialisé au Maghreb (Globalised work in the Maghreb)
- 2019 - GIS-Gestes research workshop: presentation of the survey conducted on CNSS users and agents in Morocco. Fieldwork in Casablanca (with Jamal Khalil and Imane Silmen, Aïn Chock sociology department, Hassan II University, Casablanca) - LISE- CNAM 20 November.
- 2016 Benarrosh Y., YB research workshop and conference on the theme: "Processes and issues of the metropolisation-globalisation of a southern Mediterranean city. The example of the Tangiers laboratory", Abelmaleik Essâadi University, Faculty of Economic, Legal and Social Sciences, 7 May.
- 2013 Benarrosh Y., International seminar of the European YOUMED Project coordinated by Humboldt Universität: "Facing transition in the South and East Mediterranean area: empowering the young generation", YB Paper: "Moroccan youth: what empowerment policies through employment schemes?". Berlin 9 January 2013
- 2012 Benarrosh Y., Opening seminar of the Atri exiformam July 2012. Ecole Polytechnique. Rabat-Agdal 4 July 2012. Presentation of my project in the framework of this ATRI: "Interrogating the categories of public action and its actors in Morocco. The case of employment and social protection policies".