The Reality of Maghreb Emigration and its Transformations

Emigration from the Maghreb witnessed a leap in numbers in the first decade of the twenty-first century, after waves experienced at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s. These migrations came in three stages and expanded beyond their historical scope to include geographic regions and countries near and far. This helped to create structural changes in the context of the determinants of the relationship of the migrant with his country and his role in developing regions which goes beyond the question of financial remittances. This development encouraged questions to be asked about the most important transformations in migration from the Maghreb over the past five decades and the nature of the determinants controlling it and the extent of its structural and subjective effect on the transformation of the economies of the Maghreb states and the states receiving immigrants through putting into action their transitional absorption capacities which allow ongoing communication with the original societies over multiple generations.

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Emigration from the Maghreb witnessed a leap in numbers in the first decade of the twenty-first century, after waves experienced at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s. These migrations came in three stages and expanded beyond their historical scope to include geographic regions and countries near and far. This helped to create structural changes in the context of the determinants of the relationship of the migrant with his country and his role in developing regions which goes beyond the question of financial remittances. This development encouraged questions to be asked about the most important transformations in migration from the Maghreb over the past five decades and the nature of the determinants controlling it and the extent of its structural and subjective effect on the transformation of the economies of the Maghreb states and the states receiving immigrants through putting into action their transitional absorption capacities which allow ongoing communication with the original societies over multiple generations.

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