Making the best of a difficult situation: there are a reported 70,000 to 200,000 sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco, many of them undocumented. They arrived years ago planning to reach Europe. But the EU's policy of externalising borders made it harder to travel on. Morocco seemed more welcoming, although its migration policy remains ambiguous. Some migrants suffer exploitation, and social and cultural integration are not a given

Sub-Saharan migrants forego Europe for Morocco

Rather than a point of departure for Europe, Morocco has become home to many sub-Saharan Africans. Though many migrants still dream of moving to Europe, many have decided to stay on. More...

Home
Print
Newsletter
More on this topic
Migration in Morocco: From emigration to immigrationImmigration in Morocco: The long road to integration for immigrants from sub-Saharan AfricaAfrica, not the EU: Tunisia's brain drain
Related Topics
Migration, Refugees
All Topics

Related Content

Moulay Brahim, Morocco: People are seen bringing aid and food provisions in the aftermath of the earthquake (image: Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)

Morocco quake aftermath

Moroccans pull together for Atlas region

19.09.2023
Morocco's devastating earthquake has led to a wave of solidarity with the victims, with many volunteers setting off under their own steam to help. But reconstruction will take a ...More
Morocco's King Mohammed VI chairs a meeting at the Royal Palace in Rabat, following a powerful earthquake in Morocco, 14 September 2023 (image: Moroccan News Agency/Handout via REUTERS)

Morocco quake

Why the distance, Mohammed VI?

18.09.2023
When a devastating earthquake shook Morocco's High Atlas mountains, residents of poor areas where it struck turned for help to the state and the man who leads it, King Mohammed VI ...More
A woman crying in front of her earthquake-damaged house in the old city in Marrakesh

Deadly earthquake hits Morocco near Marrakesh

15.09.2023
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco with an epicentre 75 kilometres west of Marrakesh, leaving more than 2,000 dead. ...More
Algerian author Said Khatibi (image: private)

Algeria – wasteland for Arabic literature

Big Brother is watching you

15.09.2023
In May 2023, Algerian author Said Khatibi won the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Award in the young author category for his historical crime novel "Nihayat al-Sahra'" – in English, 'the ...More
Nezha ait Hamad Ibrahim's family has been sleeping rough since their home in Tizi village was destroyed (image: Jan-Philipp Scholz/DW)

Voices from Morocco

Earthquake rescue enters critical phase

10.09.2023
Small mountain towns near the Morocco earthquake's epicentre will be hard to reach, locals confirm. Many people are still trapped under the rubble in towns that were only ...More
The village of Tikht saw most of its homes flattened in Morocco's earthquake (image: Fethi Belaid/AFP)

Morocco earthquake

'Finished here' – a village vanishes

10.09.2023
It was delicate work for the searchers to remove the woman's body from the rubble of a village that effectively ceased to exist in Morocco's deadliest earthquake in over six ...More
Date: 
01.09.2023
Mail: 
Send via mail
Topics: 
Migration, Refugees
Print: 
Print article
Countries: 
Morocco
Permalink: 
https://en.qantara.de/node/50700