ABSTRACT
The Maghreb has been for several decades a gateway for irregular migrants wishing to get to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. Today, the Maghreb countries are no longer a waiting room for those migrants but also a place of permanent residence for thousands of Africans for various reasons, especially the great difficulty in reaching Europe. One of the great challenges facing the Maghreb countries is to include a large number of migrants in fragile and vulnerable local socio-economic structures. Due to the lack of regional cooperation and the paralysis of the AMU, Maghreb governments have adopted different approaches to managing intra-African migration. Some still focus more on security measures, others try to balance different internal needs and external pressures, and others take advanced strategies to regularise a significant number of sub-Saharan and integrate them into local communities. The chapter shows how each Maghreb country manages the intra-African migration and addresses the main mechanisms by which they implement their migration policies.
