Scoping Study: Support and Migration in Morocco

In 2021, MADAR commissioned a scoping study exploring migration, humanitarian protection, and acts of solidarity in Morocco.

The research, which was carried out between November 2021 and March 2023, consisted of 28 semi-structured interviews, a focus group and three in-depth case-studies across multiple sites in Morocco. The analysis of the findings are articulated within a report and a series of blog posts for the wider public. As a scoping study, the project has also outlined a number of important issues to shape future research on the topic.

Credit: Sebastien Bachelet 2012

Photo taken from a rooftop in the neighbourhood of Maadid in the city of Rabat, Morocco, which hosts migrant communities from Western and Central Africa.

OUTPUTS

Report

Click here to read the report: Exploratory study on the field of aid to migrants in Morocco: trajectories, representations and mobilization of artistic and cultural tools

Blogs

Click here to read the first blog in the series: "The National Immigration and Asylum Strategy (NIAS): the uncertainty revolving around refugee policies and reflected in the desire for integration and border control"

Click here to read the second blog in the series: "Regularisation Campaigns in Morocco and their numbers: between ambiguity and ambivalence"

Click here to read the third blog in the series: Social work and migration: from the perspective of female migration actors.

People

The report was researched, produced and written by a team of five researchers/field actors consisting of: two leading researchers, Abdeslam ZIOU ZIOU, anthropologist and independent researcher, and Mehdi AZDEM, D. in cultural communication and expert in cultural policy issues, who have worked for the last ten years within several Moroccan NGOs that campaign for human and cultural rights. Three junior researchers: Abdessamad KHADIRI, PhD student in urban sociology at Tetouan University who is interested in urban sustainability, Oumayma AGHZERE, a master’s student in anthropology at Laval University, and Younes TALAA, an associative actor and social worker, working with migrants and refugees at an NGO in the city of Tangier.

The project was conceived by Dr Sébastien Bachelet (University of Manchester) and Prof. Laura Jeffery (University of Edinburgh), both researchers in social anthropology, and supervised by Dounia Benslimane, a consultant on cultural projects development.