ABSTRACT
The EUMAGINE survey allows measuring non-migrants’ perceptions of economic and noneconomic aspects of migrants’ life in Europe.4 The results show that non-economic aspects of migration were more negatively valued than the economic ones in the four research areas, without significant differences between the regions under study (Figure 4). There are, however, significant differences between Tangier and the other three regions if we consider perceptions of the economic aspect of migrants’ life in Europe. Indeed, interviewees in Tangier are more pessimistic about migrants’ economic success in Europe. This could be explained by a combination of factors, including a more positive perception of the local economic environment and the dominant perception among non-migrants of Spain as a country where the economic crisis has hit especially hard, coupled with the fact that Spain is one of the main destinations for migrants from this region.
