Résumé : This article attempts to analyse the socio-spatial effects of the forced relocation of the inhabitants of Douar Akrach, a shantytown in theperi-urban commune of Ain El Aouda in Morocco. It questions the evolution of neighbourhood relations in the new relocation area, as wellas the forms of territorial appropriation carried out by the inhabitants in both domestic and intermediate spaces in the context of evictionto the metropolitan periphery. It also explores the diversity of situations in which the social ties and urban skills of the inhabitants are constructedor deconstructed, thus revealing a ‚bottom-up‘ construction of the city through strategies of circumvention, diversion, and silentmobilisation.