Moroccans Abroad: How Distance Transforms (Without Breaking) Moroccan Families

It is a discrete piece of data, yet highly revealing of the place occupied by Moroccans living abroad in family life back home. According to the first results of the HCP’s 2025 National Survey on the Family, 6.4% of Moroccan households report maintaining close relationships with a relative established abroad, or roughly one household in sixteen.

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This reality is more pronounced in cities than in rural areas. The report indicates that 7.9% of urban households maintain this type of transnational family bond, compared to 3.9% in rural areas. A gap explained notably by migration history, family trajectories, and the greater geographic dispersion of loved ones in urban settings.

For the HCP, these figures demonstrate that part of Moroccan families no longer confines itself to national borders. The close family network transcends frontiers and takes the form of transnational kinship, marked by regular ties despite the distance.

This relationship does not necessarily translate into frequent face-to-face encounters. When loved ones live abroad, reunions are rarer and more carefully planned. They concentrate especially during annual vacations, which account for 56.5% of in-person meetings with relatives established outside Morocco.

Between these moments of return, families rely on calls, messages, and digital exchanges to maintain the bond. Distance thus transforms the family relationship without making it disappear: relatives living abroad remain present, but differently.

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Behind this figure of one household in sixteen, the report thus sketches a reality familiar to many Moroccan families: a brother, a sister, a child, a parent, or a loved one lives far from the country, but continues to occupy an important place in family balance.