ABSTRACT
France and to settle (temporarily or not) in an environment that seemed familiar to them. Nonetheless, this amounts rather to an illusion of proximity, as there is a great difference between the preconceptions they had about Morocco before migrating and their daily experience once in the country. Hence, the analysis of the different configurations of home and strategies of adaptation in a professional environment showed the ambivalence and complexity of the relationships forged between these French migrants and Moroccans. These findings led us to emphasise the diverse challenges which confront French people with regard to ‘living together’ in the Moroccan context, by describing the different ways in which these migrants experience, conceive, and build their ‘contact zone’ (Pratt 1992, in Ogden 2008).
