ABSTRACT
The students’ accounts in 2006 reveal that the journey to Morocco represents a break in their lives, as they are facing a country that has only recently started to receive larger numbers of sub-Saharan migrants and that stigmatises them and pushes them away – in stark contrast to what they were expecting. Very often, the experience of otherness during their stay has a profound effect on their worldview and students withdraw into sub-Saharan spaces in Morocco to define new forms of identity and belonging.
