The elaboration of these parallel causes implies a reinterpretation of the crisis situation from the specificity of the migrant condition. In Catalonia, the exclusion from the PIRMI payment (minimal insertion wage) and from public health services has been the target of informal networks of Moroccan workers. This networks have been woven around some entrepreneurs that were formerly involved in the movement for the "right to work" in Morocco (M. Emperador, 2010).
The aim of this paper is to interrogate the way activist experiences (in terms of networks, acquired skills and notions of justice and injustice) contribute to the emergence of new collective actors and the definition of new causes' boundaries. The activist legacy is updated through its confrontation to the new political context where migration takes place: a new set of potential allies, different forms of interactions with institutions and, furthermore, a bulk of transformed meanings of perceptions about the "possibilities" of contention.
We will combine the biographical analysis of activist involvement (Fillieule, 2010) and diffusion theory (Strang, Saoule, 1998) in order to shed light on how experiencing the crisis as a migrant worker can generate a contentious dynamic that both leans on and bypasses the meaning and the displaying of collective action in Morocco. This method could contribute to fill a gap in the understanding of the political action of foreign workers in Spain, as well as the plurality of collective reactions to the crisis.
