Morocco: Migration and Transnational Identity

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Explore the complex effects of migration on local communities, global politics, and transnational economies.

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This program examines the factors driving internal and international migration particularly in Morocco and elsewhere in North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Students consider how human mobility is shaped by religion, security, youth culture, desertification, poverty, and other pressing issues and how mobility engenders transnational art and multilayered identities.

The program is based in Rabat, Morocco's academic, political, and cultural center. In Rabat, students receive thematic lectures and intensive language instruction in both Modern Standard Arabic and the Moroccan dialect.  Learn more about the program’s coursework.

Excursions to northern and rural areas of Morocco, as well as to Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, illuminate many different aspects of migration. Learn more about these excursions.

Students learn from Moroccan and European academics and policymakers, NGO and human rights activists, artists, and experts in the area of migration as it relates to law, international relations, and development.  Lecturers are drawn from institutions such as:

• The Research Group on Migration and Culture, University Mohammed V in Rabat
• Fondation Orient- Occident
• The Association of Friends and Families of Victims of Clandestine Migration
• Advisory Council on Human Rights
• Moroccan Association of Human Rights
• Institut des Etudes Africaines, University Mohammed V in Rabat
• Association de Développement Local de Chefchaouen

Throughout the semester, students are deeply immersed in Moroccan society and culture. Homestays gives students exposure to different Moroccan perspectives and daily life.

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