The Institutional Channeling of Transnational Economic Mobilization in Three Moroccan Regions

This paper looks at the interaction between transnational economic mobilization between Europe and Morocco, on the one hand, and diaspora policies on the other hand. The objective is to better understand how transnational economic exchanges contribute to redefining the links between home societies and emigrant communities while at the same time redefining the later as diasporas. These processes lie at the crossroads of new migration dynamics, new modes of economic action among emigrant communities and new State responses to these demands. Dwelling on the author’s previous research on Moroccans in Europe and on a new project conducted in three Moroccan administrative regions (Oriental, Khouribga Beni Mellal and Souss Massa), the paper looks more particularly at how diaspora policies are being formulated at sub-state level. The objective is to focus on Moroccan diasporic entrepreneurs and to analyse how their transnational economic mobilization is institutionally channeled in these three contexts.