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Cet article traite des manifestations du hijâb. Il analyse, à partir d’entretiens faits en 2008 avec des étudiantes voilées, une pratique quotidienne qui marque les conduites sociales sur la scène publique. Les données recueillies révèlent bien l’importance des bricolages individuels et des transactions sur le fait religieux, dans un contexte hostile au port du voile, vu comme une forme de dissidence politique. On souligne également l’adéquation entre le vécu des femmes et leurs dispositions culturelles dans la réactivation du port du hijâb. Cet usage social fait l’objet de conflits et de compromis. Le port du hijâb n’exprime pas une quête identitaire, mais un malaise sociétal profond.

What means wearing the “hijâb” today: usages and symbolic transactionsStarting from observations and deepened interviews with about ten young veiled women on the wearing of the “hijâb”, this article draws a sort of painting of a daily practice, which does not stop to emphasize the social behaviour on the public scene. Done in 2008, this survey revealed the importance of individual crafts (and so transactions) of religious facts in a context mostly marked by a hostile tendency regarding the wearing of the veil, which only saw in it a sort of dissidence. As of the role of social determinisms and the religious reconstitution context, the survey reveals the importance of adequacy between people’s personal experience and their cultural dispositions in the reactivation of the wearing of the “hijâb”. This social usage also works as an exercise or even as a test of conflict and of compromises between different tendencies. The wearing of the “hijâb” does not seem to express an identity quest, but more a deepened society embarrassment, factor which does orientate the process of reproduction of religious practice as forms of supervisions and adequate answers to people’s conditions.