This article aims to look at the relationship between different forms of marginalities and violence among the youth in the southern region of Morocco. It is based on a fieldwork conducted in the year 2016. It argues that marginality of young people could better be grasped if it is seen as the product of the complex interaction of different individual, community and societal factors. It is therefore important to analyze the structural factors that predispose and contribute to the feeling of marginality through a more holistic perspective. As the fieldwork shows, the marginality and violence of young people is multidimensional and this paper argues that heterogeneity of cases and the diversity of the trajectories of individuals reveal not only a strong feeling of marginality (hogra in Moroccan parlance) among the youth but also how violence is often experienced rather than perpetrated. Yet the experiences, daily lives and forms of resistance of young people are equally important in terms of understanding their agency which this paper seeks shed light on.