Fruit of a study carried out over several years, the collective work “Women and minors in migration – routes, resistances, insertion” has just appeared at the Editions La Croisée des Chemins, in partnership with the Council of the Moroccan Community abroad (CCME). Coordinated by Fatima Ait Ben Lmadani and Hicham Hafid, the book analyzes “a reality with a little -known phenomenon in Morocco, despite the debates, even the stigmatizations, which it arouses outside of our borders”.
With the participation of Rachid Benlabbah, Khalid Chegraoui and El Mouassaoui El Ajlaoui, the opus thus proposes to highlight “the impact of the Moroccan immigration policy on the reduction of the vulnerability of sub -Saharan women and minors and their integration into Moroccan society”. “The questions asked concern housing, employment, health, education and cultural rights”, underline the publisher and the coordinators.
The latter also interviewed “the aspects of engagement of institutional and non -institutional actors, emphasizing the appropriation by the sub -Saharans of integration and negotiation capacity”. Suffice to say that the originality of this study remains in the long time of its realization, a bias which made it possible to “follow more closely this population, the evolution of its demands and the responses of the public authorities”.
In other words, the authors’ approach is to question “the process of integration of women and minors through the prism of the migrant as an actor of this policy”. The treatment of the integration issue here constitutes a continuity of the results of a previous study of the research group on the regularization of sub -Saharan migrants.
Both qualitative and quantitative, this approach includes “individual interviews, focus groups and questionnaires, conducted on the Casablanca-Rabat-Salé and Tangier-Nador-Ojda” axes. In addition, it is strengthened by an analysis of legal and administrative documentation, in addition to “statistical, demographic and economic data”.
This approach is unique to several titles, especially since the studies available until then have rarely focused on this target population in the national context, in a situation of sustainable installation.
