Revisiting Moroccan Migrations

Mohamed Berriane is Professor at the Mohammed V University of Rabat (Morocco). His research interests include local and regional development issues, and the impact of tourism and Moroccans’ international emigration on their regions of origin. Hein de Haas is Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, former co-director and research associate at the International Migration Institute (University of Oxford), and Honorary Professor in Migration and Development at Maastricht University. His most recent publication is The Age of Migration (2015). Katharina Natter is doctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Her work focusses on the role of the state in migration, focussing on Europe and North Africa.

• 1. Introduction: revisiting Moroccan migrations 2. Acquiring ‘voice’ through ‘exit’: how Moroccan emigrants became a driving force of political and socio-economic change 3. Language as a new instrument of border control: the regulation of marriage migration from Morocco to Germany 4. Times of uncertainty in Europe: migration feedback loops in four Moroccan regions 5. Sub-Saharan students in Morocco: determinants, everyday life, and future plans of a high-skilled migrant group 6. Immigration and Pense´e d’Etat: Moroccan migration policy changes as transformation of ‘geopolitical culture’ 7. French migrants in Morocco: from a desire for elsewhereness to an ambivalent reality