The evolution of the Amazigh movement in Morocco has been the result of convergence processes between different internal forces molded in part by the national and international political situation and authoritarian reconfigurations of the Moroccan state. The Amazigh movement first began to be militant at the end of the 1970s in independent Morocco. Since then, Amazigh activism has made the transition from individual to collective action, its militancy has consolidated in the country’s public arena, its claims of a political nature have grown and it has found its place within Morocco's structure of contestation. All these transformations have led to the emergence of different cleavages, which have largely widened after the recognition of the Amazigh language and identity in the 2011 Constitution and the subsequent laws.

This paper examines the Amazigh movement in Morocco and its position in the state structure of opposition in the country, as well as its impact on the state public institutional sphere before and after the uprising and the subsequent legislative changes, to give answer to two main questions: how cultural and linguistic diversity and regional particularisms have been handled by the Moroccan state?; how these singularities have been defended and negotiated since the country's independence?