3.2 From Morocco to Europe

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

3.2 From Morocco to Europe

Learning objectives

After studying this section, you will be able to:

• Describe push and pull factors for economic migrants.
• Describe the pattern of how Moroccan migrants have come to Europe.

Noura’s grandfather migrated from Taznakht to Casablanca.

A typical village in the deserts of Morocco.

Push factors for cities (answers)

- There isn't enough work in the city where you live

- It isn't safe wars, criminality 

- Medical reasons, not enough doctors or there isn't the treatment that you need

- Employment

Migration

Immigrants and emigrants

Reasons

Push factor: a reason for somebody to move away from a place.

Pull factors: factors that attract people from where they live. 

Talking point: Cities are often defined as having many pull factors, but what can be push factors for cities?

Many Moroccan former guest workers and their families are still living in Europe.

A remittance is a transfer of money, often by a foreign worker to an individual in their home country. 

What social and cultural consequences can labour migration have for the area of origin? 

- Success and prestige is related to migration

- People get new ideas, modernisation process accelerates

- Change of social stratification (het vormen van verschillende lagen) after migrants return

- Brain drain (higher educated people leave the country)

- Brain gain (transfer of knowledge to areas of origin of migrants).

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Numbers of guest workers per country and the percentage of these that have returned to their country.

Family reunification

When a migrant worker has his or her partner and children move to the country where he or she works.

Family formation

If a migrant worker seeks a partner in his or her home country and has the new partner migrate to the country where he or she works.

No more Moroccan migrants?

Low paid / well paid?

What’s in the family?

The children of your parent’s brothers and sisters are your cousins. There is no Dutch translation for the word ‘cousins’. We speak about ‘neven en nichten’, in that case. In English you only talk about nephews and nieces, when you want to specifically point out how many boys and girls there are in your group of cousins. For example, you might have six cousins: of these, two are nephews (male) and four are nieces (female). If your cousins have children themselves, these are your second cousins.

Homework

• Study 3.1 + 3.2
• HAVO do Ex. 1 to 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11
• VWO do Ex. 1 to 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11