Intercompréhension et facettes identitaires : des représentations de migrants maghrébins de France

Based on 105 interviews with Arabic-speaking and/or Berber-speaking migrants in France, this paper concerns intercomprehension between people from the Maghreb. Indeed, for example, some people declare that the comprehension between Tunisians and Moroccans speaking dialectal Arabic is obvious while for the other, there is barely a small similarity between both "varieties". Declarations concerning intercomprehension seem to vary according to the context and the identity associated to the latter by individuals. Thus, very schematically, one would say that he doesn't understand the people of the nearest village but in France, he will say that he understands the whole Maghreb. Therefore, my purpose will be to show that those declarations can change according to different actualisations of the same identity.