Immigration to Fes: The Meaning of the New Dynamics of the Euro-African Migratory System

Berriane, Mohamed; Aderghal, Mohammed; Janati, Mhamed Idrissi; Berriane, Johara

doi:10.1080/07256868.2013.827825

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“…Yet, many migrants failing or not venturing to enter Europe prefer to settle in Morocco as a second-best option rather than return to their more unstable and substantially poorer origin countries. Tens of thousands have settled in cities like Casablanca, Rabat, and Fez on a semi-permanent basis, where they find jobs in the informal service sector, domestic households, petty trade, and construction (Berriane et al 2013). The presence of immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa has also increased religious diversity and, to a certain extent, revitalised Christian life in some cities of a predominantly Muslim country.…”

Section: Moroccan Immigrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Journal of North African Studies and sub-Saharan Africa into Europe. However, although 'transit' migration from Africa to Europe has dominated Moroccan discourse on immigration over the past decade, insights from empirical research, including articles in this special issue, show that the reality of immigration into Morocco is much more diverse and complex (Berriane et al 2013).…”

Section: Moroccan Immigrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first dimension of immigration to Morocco is the growing number of West African migrants who come to Morocco to study and work. These migrations are not new, but rooted in much older patterns of pre-colonial trans-Saharan mobility and connectivity through conquest, trade and pilgrimage (Berriane et al 2013). Ever since independence, the Moroccan state has had a strategic interest in maintaining strong economic, cultural and political connections with West African states such as Senegal and Mali, and these links have been reinforced over the past years.…”

Section: Morocco As a Destination For Sub-saharan Workers And Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Introduction: revisiting Moroccan migrations

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2015

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2015

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“…Morocco predominantly receives migrants and asylum seekers from African countries, such as Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, DRC Congo, and Sierra Leone (Fargues 2009;Mghari 2009;Berriane et al 2010;AMERM 2008). Given the growing obstacles to crossing into Europe, migrants from sub-Saharan countries (commonly called sub-Saharans) have become increasingly visible in urban centres such as Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, and, more recently, Fez (De Haas 2007;Berriane and Agerdal 2008).…”

Section: Becoming Lands Of Destinationmentioning

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The Governance of International Migration

Üstübici¹

2017

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Introduction 3.1 Deportability as part of daily experience Deportability at the borderlands Deportability in urban life After the King's speech 3.2 Illegality in (semi-)settlement Settling into violent neighbourhoods 'The problem is work' 3.3 Access to public healthcare and education Healthcare between formal recognition and bureaucratic incorporation Public education: Bureaucratic sabotage and self-exclusion 3.4 Reversing illegality through mobilization Emergence of civil society networks Migrants' self-organizations Brothers in arms: What makes alliances possible? Mobilization for individual mobility 4 Turkey Depoliticized illegality and a quest for legitimacy 4.1 Migrant deportability beyond the EU borders Experiences of deportability: Between tolerance and arbitrariness 4.2 Illegality in (semi-)settlement: Incorporation into informality Settling into informality 'We arrived, slept, and the next day we started working' Limits of labour market participation Opening access to healthcare? Education 4.4 Reversing illegality: Mobilization or moving sideways? Civil society working on immigration issues Legal sidesteps in the absence of mobilization 5 Migrant illegality beyond EU borders Turkey and Morocco in a comparative perspective 5.1 Deportations and perceptions of deportability 5.2 Socioeconomic participation and daily legitimacy 5.3 Access to rights through institutions and the role of 'streetlevel advocacy' The genesis of this book was my PhD dissertation, which I defended at Koç University and the University of Amsterdam in 2015, it further evolved during my post-doctoral fellowship at MiReKoc and assistant professorship at Koç University. I would like to thank all of the academic and administrative staff at both institutions for providing me with intellectual homes during the fieldwork and writing stages. I would like to thank Koç University, the Bucerius PhD Scholarship Program Settling into Motion, the Center for Gender Studies at Koç University (KOÇKAM) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) for their financial support at different stages of my doctoral research. This book is indeed a product of the long physical, intellectual and mental journey that I have taken alongside several wonderful people to whom thanks are due. Unfortunately, I can only mention a few of them in this short piece. I would first like to thank my supervisors, Prof Ahmet İçduygu and Prof Jan Rath for their invaluable guidance. Additionally, Dr Sebastien Chauvin, Dr Özlem Altan, Prof Deniz Yükseker and Prof Mine Eder were always ready to read earlier drafts of my chapters and discuss my ideas. Conducting fieldwork in two different countries would not have been possible without the valuable help of precious people. In Morocco: Apostolos, Babacar, Fatima, Moussa, Cewad and Najat, among others, helped me immensely in navigating my way in a land where I considered myself an outsider. Without the help of Deniz Sert, Deniz Karcı, Biriz, Uğur and Fattah, and many others, fieldwork in Turkey would have been...

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“…Research, following new directions, now studies origin and arrival destinations simultaneously 56 – 58 . Moroccan researchers investigate and reflect on the situation of sub-Saharan immigrants and their future; 59 – 62 but they also reflect on the drivers of migration while challenging the old explanatory models; they probe the effects of the economic crisis of 2008 on the situation of migrants, but also in respect of human rights and the perception of Europe.…”

Section: Bridging De-bordering and Cross-bordering: Mobilities Encmentioning

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The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality

Paradiso

2016

European Review

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If we look at the Mediterranean only as a space, a dissonant geography is obvious. Its diversity is mistakenly reduced in a process of ‘diorthosis’, a cognitive and operational approach that starts from assuming the nature of things and functionality modes rather than arriving at a proper image via actual analysis.1The study of flows, of networks–i.e. the circulation of ideas, people, finances, and so on – challenges the continuous representation of the Mediterranean between homogeneity and otherness, and re-posits it as both a post-colonial imbricate site of encounters and currents and as a site of new hegemonic and counter-power discourse(s) and alliances. This paper explores the ‘mobility’ paradigm as an initial approach to contemporary geographies of the Mediterranean. The latter are being created not only by the media, powers and ideologies, but also by everyday people’s inter-ethnic, inter-cultural, and emotional interactions in places and digital communication channels. Such interactions are often characterized by blockages of inter-ethnic or inter-cultural exchanges, as well as by inequalities. They present and discuss initial paths of new encounters structuring North–South relationships, and vice versa, but also circular and East–West ones since they are typified by a variety of personal and virtual mobilities in terms of gender, motivations, emotional geographies, impacts, and circulation rather than origin/destination, and so on. It seems to me that the internet and people’s spatial mobility underline a deep process of change for the Mediterranean. A dialectic of diaspora politics, circuits of funds, weapons, empowerments, and emotions, challenge the boundaries of political communities in transformation. The Mediterranean thus appears as a global space of confrontation, emulation, opposition, dialectics, and change. Places, flows, wires and digital TV are the loci for all this. There is no assumption of ‘Mediterranean as a bridge of cultures’; instead, we all are actors in networking communities

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Immigration to Fes: The Meaning of the New Dynamics of the Euro-African Migratory System

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Introduction: revisiting Moroccan migrations

Introduction: revisiting Moroccan migrations

The Governance of International Migration

The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality

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