ABSTRACT
This paper draws on data gathered in 2010 and 2011 for the EUMAGINE project in four regions of Morocco. The EUMAGINE project studies the impact of perceptions of human rights and democracy on internationalmigration aspirations and decisions inMorocco, Senegal, Turkey andUkraine. Theproject collected in-depth interviews and surveys, using a random sample of the population aged between 18 and 39 in four regions in each country. The research areas were selected according to their migration history or a specific human rights situation. In Morocco, Tangier was selected because of its strong immigration background and its historical connections with Europe; the Todgha Valley was chosen because of its high emigration rate; the Central Plateau, in contrast, was selected for its more recent and lower emigration history; and finally, the Eastern High Atlas for its characteristics as a geographically remote, and economically isolated and underdeveloped area. The main characteristics of the four areas under study are summarised in Table 1. The analysis presented in this paper mainly draws on the 80 in-depth interviews carried out in
Morocco with men and women with diverse profiles in terms of age, occupational status, migration experience and migration aspirations. These provide insights into longitudinal changes in migration-related perceptions and aspirations of non-migrants. The findings of the non-quantitative data are complemented by survey data from 2000 questionnaires collected in Morocco.1 Using inferential analyses with weighted data (Ersanilli 2012) and controlling for
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