Sub-Saharan and Moroccan migrants have found a new modus operandi. They board flights at Casablanca airport bound for Latin American countries, then take advantage of the stopover at Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport to apply for asylum. A situation that has led to overcrowding in the asylum centers at the Spanish airport.
The border between Algeria and Morocco was exceptionally opened this week to repatriate the body of a 28-year-old Moroccan migrant who drowned in Algeria.
Mourad Maimouni, an independent municipal councilor, suggested during a Brussels municipal council session to rename streets in tribute to Moroccan and Turkish immigrant workers, marking the 60th anniversary of the migration agreements between Belgium and these two countries.
The academic world denounces the tightening of the conditions for the arrival of foreign students in France provided for in the immigration law, voted on Tuesday, December 19, and is mobilizing so that the text does not pass.
In the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, immigrant workers and Moroccans in particular are more numerous to work in the construction sector, according to a recent study by Insee.
Mohamed Ihmoudni arrived by boat in Lanzarote in 2008 from Morocco, when he was only 8 years old. On October 15, he found his younger brother who joined him from Agadir on the quay of Puerto Naos.
Mohamed El-Hamdy arrived by boat in Spain from Morocco 18 years ago. The 34-year-old man has just won the award for the best grill in Spain. The story of an inspiring journey.
A French journalist is at the center of a controversy for having linked the proliferation of bed bugs to immigration.
While the southern border of Spain is often seen as a symbol of the difficulties faced by migrants, many others face an equally difficult obstacle: bureaucracy. To obtain a residence permit, one often has to wait for years, except in rare cases where the state accelerates the procedure for humanitarian reasons.
The owner of a bar in Spain would have received an anonymous handwritten note in which he is required to fire his foreign, particularly Moroccan, staff and only hire people of "Spanish or Western" origin.
A young Moroccan was killed by a bullet to the head on the night of August 23 to 24, on the beach of Balerma in El Ejido, in southern Spain. The reasons are currently obscure.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, discussed his immigration policy, arguing that France has "very clearly a problem with integration" and that it is necessary not to "confuse immigration and integration".