How were Moroccans used to close coal mines in the region? While extraction wells close one after the other until the 1990s, it is a question of understanding the role and status of these Moroccan workers, to situate their professional trajectories in a history of the slow disappearance of minors and in the colonial context of their recruitment.
Based on the recent thesis (2018) of the sociologist at the EHESS Anton Perdoncin, this meeting will be illustrated by the testimony of Abdellah Samate, former minor and president of the Association of former Moroccan minors of Nord-Pas de Calais (AMMN) and the author Samira El Ayachi.
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Samira El Ayachi, novelist born in Lens, daughter of a minor. His fourth novel, Le Ventre des hommes (ed. L'Aube; 2021), retraces through an individual trajectory the memory of Moroccans who came to France to work in the houillières.
Anton Perdoncin, sociologist, post-doctoral fellow at the EHESS, defended in 2018 the thesis: «Moroccans to close mines. Immigration and Coal Recession in Nord-Pas-de-Calais (1945–1990)”.
Abdellah Samate, president of the association of former Moroccan miners.