Women’s Migration and Development: The Case of Women Migrants from Maghreb Countries to Europe

The global interest in migration issues and the legal and non-legal problems they cause is linked to the extent to which migrants fulfil positive roles in the various social and economic roles in their home countries as well as the growth in cultural exchange between the original and receiving societies. This friction reveals some aspects of migration by Moroccan women to Europe, its course over time and its natural stages in the fields of labor, development, and education, and the extent of its presence on the scene of economic investment in the home country, after statistics indicated a doubling in the number of women migrants from the far south of Morocco, by an average of 6.6 percent between 1991 and 2002. The rise in the proportion of women migrants raises questions about the financial remittances and the failure to use them in productive sectors, leaving them to be used up for consumption and daily life.

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The global interest in migration issues and the legal and non-legal problems they cause is linked to the extent to which migrants fulfil positive roles in the various social and economic roles in their home countries as well as the growth in cultural exchange between the original and receiving societies. This friction reveals some aspects of migration by Moroccan women to Europe, its course over time and its natural stages in the fields of labor, development, and education, and the extent of its presence on the scene of economic investment in the home country, after statistics indicated a doubling in the number of women migrants from the far south of Morocco, by an average of 6.6 percent between 1991 and 2002. The rise in the proportion of women migrants raises questions about the financial remittances and the failure to use them in productive sectors, leaving them to be used up for consumption and daily life.

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