Into The Red: A Look into the Reasons Why Refugees Decide to Flee, Settle or Migrate to and from Morocco

<p>This research paper explores some of the main reasons why refugees and asylum seekers, particularly from sub-Saharan African countries, embark on a journey and decide to settle, flee or migrate to and from Morocco. Because of this phenomenon, Morocco has seen a 96% increase of refugees migrating to the borders of Morocco each year for the past three years. Many say that this astonishing increase of migrants choosing Morocco is due to such factors as: wars breaking out regionally across central African and Middle Eastern countries causing them to flee; Morocco being a culturaly diverse francophone country whose laws and policies are accepting to foreigners and it’s economy has become more prosperous as it develops towards liberal views seen in western countries, which makes them want to settle; and due to Morocco’s proximity to Europe many refugees and asylum seekers use it as a transit country to cross over into European territories, which ultimately makes them want to migrate from Morocco. This new migration trend, however poses many obstacles for Morocco’s still developing refuee laws a well as Intternational migration laws when they look at what actually constitutes as a refugee or an asylum seeker</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in International Studies (MAIS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

International Studies

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Holivay, Fadeelah E

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stephen Zunes

• Morocco
• Immigration
• Migration
• Refugees
• Asylum Seekers
• Migration Law
• African Languages and Societies
• African Studies
• Anthropology
• Cultural History
• Economic History
• Ethics in Religion
• French and Francophone Language and Literature
• Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
• History
• History of Religion
• History of Religions of Eastern Origins
• Human Geography
• Infrastructure
• International and Intercultural Communication
• Islamic World and Near East History
• Legal Theory
• Nature and Society Relations
• Near and Middle Eastern Studies
• Other International and Area Studies
• Other Legal Studies
• Other Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Peace and Conflict Studies
• Political History
• Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Social History
• Social Welfare

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/123

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:thes-1137