3.2 From Morocco to Europe

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

At the end of this lesson

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.

Pullfactor vs Pushfactor (NOTE)

Pullfactor: reason to go TO a place

Pushfactor: reason to LEAVE a place

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. 

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

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? Why does this happen?

To do-19th of march

Paragraph 3.2  entirely finished

At the end of this lesson

You are able to evaluate the test

Do exercises 7 to 11

1. check your test answers

2. work on paragraph 3.2

exercises 7 to 11

Homework 10th of march

Paragraph 3.3 - Exercises 1 to 12. 

Start with it and ask questions and fill in the blank on the first day after the holiday.