ABSTRACT
The ‘diasporicness’ is interactional and emergent through practice as opposed to a pre-defined parameter that forms a community. It depends on a series of events in connection to one another: a migration from a home-space to a new place, a settling in to that new home-space. Any migration – to another city, another country, another continent – represents a rupture of some magnitude, shaping the distance between steps in an ordinal sequence. While in Morocco, diasporic visitors encounter a choice when they are interacting with others: to try to be ‘Moroccan’ or to stick with what is familiar, with other diasporic Moroccan-Europeans coming from similar trajectories. In the end, embarking on the holiday is a practice, motivated by practical decision-making that calculates resources, like time, money, enjoyment, family, leisure, friends, hassles, mentalities, beaches, and sun, in order to choose what holiday to take the year.
