Habiter ensemble la ville en Algérie : Mixité sociale, vivre ensemble et ségrégation en question au M’Zab
Living together in the city in Algeria: Social diversity, living together and segregation in question in M'Zab

Summary/Abstract: At the center of debates for decades, social diversity is supposed to be a way to fight against segregation and territorial inequalities. It has been the subject of several policies: city policies and urban renewal. It is present in a recurring manner in speeches and in legislative texts. In Algeria, the research on the different phases of the Great settlement sets built between 1970 and 1980 shows the existence of a real social diversity. It was only subsequently with the multiple state policies of the city and of housing that a serious problem of social diversity arose. This paper focuses on a particular case in Algeria: the M’Zab valley, a region of southern Algeria with a historical, cultural, institutional, demographic and identity specificity. For decades, the region has known a difficult cohabitation between the two groups that occupy it: the Mozabites (Ibadi Berbers) and the non-Mozabites (Maliki Arabs). It is through this case, the M'Zab valley, that we propose to approach the notion of social diversity.

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