ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the transformative impact of Moroccan women’s migration to Europe. It describes the history and demographics of Moroccan women’s migration to Europe. The chapter analyzes the results of the interviews, which determined that because Moroccan women migrants are considered less threatening than individuals from other Muslim countries, they are regarded as responsible, peaceful, and hardworking. Migrant Moroccan women have their own economic, political, cultural, and legal specificities. They may be single, married, divorced, or widows. They may be housewives, mothers, students, workers, career women, unemployed, or businesswomen. The integration of women in the job market has had positive effects on their families and households. For many migrant women, work enabled them to acquire a new status which helped them to integrate into society and partake in active lives. The chapter concludes that women’s emancipation through migration has undermined existing patriarchal authority that has subjugated women and confined them to domestic work.
