This article aims to analyze discrete forms of engagement between religious and educative domains. By studying the daily practices within female sociability networks located in working-class neighbourhoods, we show that women who have experienced migration can use the mutual aid bonds linked to subsistence work to engage language-learning educational activities. The analysis is based on a qualitative study conducted in the Orléans metropolis, on participant observations in a community association, and interviews with women taking part in the association’s activities. With an anthropological approach to citizenship, this study allows to observe the daily expression of various forms of commitment, in particular through the organization of Arabic language courses, which expresses how those women reclaim respectability and discreetly resist stigmatization.