Link to Researchers
D Haas, Hein, and Tineke Fokkema. "Intra-Household Conflicts in Migration Decisionmaking: Return and Pendulum Migration in Morocco." Population and Development Review 36.3 (2010): 5411-561. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: household, conflicts, migration, decision-making, return, Morocco
Through an analysis of the migration behavior and transnational residential strategies of the first generation, aging migrants from Morocco, this research contributes to a conceptual critique of migration theories that identify the household as the most relevant decision making unit highlighting the role of intra-household power inequalities and conflicts in migration decision making and the effects of these decision on household relations.
El Arbi, Mrabet. "Readmission Agreements (the case of Morocco)." European Journal of Migration & Law 5.3 (2003): 379-85. Link to Article
Keyword: readmission, agreement, Morocco
This brief piece discusses the agreements between Morocco and Europe regarding the readmission of Moroccans who have irregularly migrated to Europe. The discussion includes advantages of the agreement to Morocco, practices and human rights consequences of the readmission and the development of camps at the frontiers.
Geddes, Andrew. "Governing Migration from a Distance: Interactions Between Climate, Migration and Security in the South Mediterranean." European Security 24.3(2015): 473-490. Link to Article
keyword: climate change, environment, security, South Mediterranean
The Article asses the link between the environment, and the security and migration nexus by assessing the EU's external governance policies in the “South Mediterranean Partner Countries” (SMPCs): Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia. The author argues that, given the data, migration triggered by climate changes interacts with social, economic and political drivers of migration. He further finds that implications of such movements exposes migrants to further risks and more displacement.
Haas, Hein. "Migration, Remittances and Regional Development in Southern Morocco." Geoforum 37.4 (2006): 565-580. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: migration, remittances, development, economic, Southern Morocco, Moroccan Togha oasis
This study examines the link between migration and economic development through a qualitative research and a survey among 507 non-migrant, internal and international migrant households in the Moroccan Togha oasis. The study shows that international migration and remittances have large contributions to economic development, improved standards of living and enable the partial emancipation of subaltern ethnic groups.
Keygnaert, Ines, Abdessamad Dialmy, Altay Manco, Jeroen Keygnaert, Nicole Vettenburg, Kristien Roelens and Marleen Temmerman. "Sexual Violence and Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco: A Community-Based Participatory Assessment using Respondent Driven Sampling." Globalization and Health 10 (2014): 32. Link to Article
Keyword: sexual, violence, Sub-Saharan, migrants, Morocco, community-based participatory assessment
This research examines the violence experienced by Sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco applying community-based participatory research model. The research finds that 90% of participants have experienced violence, about half was sexual violence. The authors further explore the determinants perceived by the community as factors causing this violence, which is mainly their immigration status.
Natter, Katharina. "Fifty Years of Maghreb Emigration: How States Shaped Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian Emigration." International Migration Institute (2014). Link to Article
Keyword: Maghreb, Emigration, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
This paper traces the emigration pattern of Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans to Europe since the 1960s, focusing on three distinct phases in which Maghreb converge and diverge. These phases are: post-independence when emigration boomed; mid 1970s-1990s when Algerian emigration leveled off while emigration from Tunisia and morocco remained high; and the 1990s when Moroccan emigration increased exponentially while Tunisian and Algerian emigration grew moderately. The paper focuses on internal and external factors that implicated these emigration patterns.
White, Gregory W. "Sovereignty and International Labor Migration: The 'Security Mentality' in Spanish-Moroccan Relations as an Assertion of Sovereignty." Review of International Political Economy 14.4 (2007): 690. Link to Article
Keyword: sovereignty, international, labor, migration, security, Spanish, Moroccan, relations
The author is concerned with the security debate as symbolic politics that is associated with drawing on security to enhance sovereignty claims and justify border control. He examines the case of the Moroccan-Spanish 'migration system' to illustrate that Franco Spain has used migration politics to assert sovereignty claims visa-a-vis Morocco, which furthered Spains' sense of societal security and affirmed its status as a full member of the European space.
Wundrlich, Daniel. "Differentiation and Policy Convergence Against Long Odds: Lessons from Implementing EU Migration Policy in Morocco." Mediterranean Politics 15.2 (2010): 249-72. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: EU migration policy, Morocco
This article provides an analysis of the EU-Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMC) policy convergence to qualify EU's cooperation with SEMC. The author argues that the EU's inability to achieve undifferentiated policy transfer is, affected by influence of bilateral relations of individual member and non-member states on the EU agenda and EU relations with SMEC; intra-EU coordination problem; and EU dependence on actors in SMEC to implement its policy goals which allows SMEC to exert considerable influence on EU policy. The results of these are geographical, sectoral and normative differentiation processes. The author concludes that the EU cooperation of migration policy in SEMC sits between the model of
differentiated integration and a` la carte cooperation but in an unintended form than
the one envisaged by policy objectives manufactured in Brussels.