Publication: Asociacionismo y cuestión nacional en el Sahara Occidental
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2012
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Taller de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos
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Desde mediados de la década pasada se ha operado una emergencia de la contestación política saharaui en los territorios ocupados por Marruecos. Este fenómeno se debe a varios factores entre los que cabe destacar los escasos resultados de las negociaciones políticas auspiciadas por Naciones Unidas, los cambios políticos operados en Marruecos, la frustración de la población saharaui ante la intensificación de la colonización y una creciente sensación de discriminación. Las protestas están en gran medida estructuradas por un tejido de asociaciones, la mayor parte de ellas alegales, que han hecho de la defensa de los derechos humanos su principal eje de actuación. Sus miembros son tanto antiguos militantes políticos como jóvenes que sólo han conocido la ocupación. El artículo aborda el proceso de articulación de estas asociaciones, sus actuaciones, sus nexos con Marruecos y con el resto de los saharauis, y presta especial atención a su carácter sustitutivo ante la imposibilidad de libre organización de los nacionalistas e independentistas.
Since the middle of the last decade a growing political protest has emerged in Western Sahara occupied by Morocco. This phenomenon has been caused by several factors: the little results of the political negotiations under the United Nations, the political changes operated in Morocco, the frustration of the Sahrawi population facing the colonization and an increasing sensation of discrimination. To a great extent the protests are structured by associations, most of them non-legal, which have made of the defense of the human rights their main axis of performance. Most of their members are former political militants as young people who have only known the occupation. The article approaches the process of joining these associations, their performances, their ties with Morocco and the other Sahrawi, and gives special attention to its substitute character before the impossibility of free organization of the nationalists and supporters of independence.
Since the middle of the last decade a growing political protest has emerged in Western Sahara occupied by Morocco. This phenomenon has been caused by several factors: the little results of the political negotiations under the United Nations, the political changes operated in Morocco, the frustration of the Sahrawi population facing the colonization and an increasing sensation of discrimination. To a great extent the protests are structured by associations, most of them non-legal, which have made of the defense of the human rights their main axis of performance. Most of their members are former political militants as young people who have only known the occupation. The article approaches the process of joining these associations, their performances, their ties with Morocco and the other Sahrawi, and gives special attention to its substitute character before the impossibility of free organization of the nationalists and supporters of independence.