Les ONG travaillant avec les mères célibataires au Maroc : des instruments d'antipolitique de l'État?
The main purpose of this dissertation is to question the link between democratization and its associative actors. To accomplish this, a case study was conducted. The focus of this case study was centred around  non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working with single mothers in Morocco. These women are living in situations of  social exclusion due to their participation in non-marital sexual relations, an act that is punishable by law in Morocco. On a superficial level, the NGOs taking care of these women strive to remove them from the margins of society, facilitate their social inclusion and, by extension, improve the status of women in Morocco. Presented in a certain light, these NGOs would seemingly contribute to improve "social capital" and politicize sensitive subjects – and thus reinforce the aforementioned doxa.  In actuality, it is rather a reverse process that is at work. In fact, the state "unloads" (Hibou 1998, 1999a, 1999b, 2011) the issue of single mothers onto the NGOs. A « discharge » that is part of a wider movement of "privatization" (Catusse 2008), dictated by neoliberal precepts. This situation is resolved according to the logic of "problem solving", without necessarily tackling its root causes. Viewed from this perspective, we are faced with the disillusion that instead of strengthening democratization or improving the status of women in Morocco, NGOs reinforce a status quo that maintains and strengthens authoritarian practices. In short, NGOs end up fueling an "anti-political" situation (Schedler 1997) by becoming, in spite of themselves, instruments for defusing social and political problematics.
Capitalism Privatization Morocco Authoritarianism Neoliberalism Antipolitics Discharge State Non-Governmental Organizations Social capital Democratization