Out of Sight, Close to the Wallet: How Exile Transforms the Role of Moroccan Expatriates

Far from Morocco, family ties do not disappear, but they change form. According to the first results of the HCP’s 2025 National Family Survey, geographical distance does not end family mutual aid. Rather, it modifies its methods, reducing forms of help that require physical presence.

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For relatives settled abroad, it becomes difficult to help concretely with daily tasks. Healthcare, household chores, childcare or educational support represent only a very small part of family exchanges. The report emphasizes that these forms of aid almost disappear as soon as immediate proximity no longer exists.

From a distance, mutual aid focuses mainly on two areas: moral support and money. Advice, visits and moral support remain the primary form of family solidarity, including with relatives living outside Morocco. They still represent 76% of exchanges with family circle members residing abroad.

Monetary transfers take on particular importance. While they represent approximately 11% of family exchanges overall, their share rises to 22.6% when it comes to Moroccan expatriates. The HCP thus observes that relatives established abroad become primarily providers of financial resources.

This evolution does not mean that the family relationship is reduced solely to money. The report also shows that contacts remain regular thanks to digital tools. Among relatives living abroad, 19.6% have daily virtual exchanges with the household, 34.9% have weekly contacts and 20.6% have monthly exchanges.

These figures paint a reality familiar to many Moroccan families: the relative living in Europe or elsewhere cannot always be present to care for a sick parent, look after a child or help with daily tasks. But they remain present in other ways, through calls, advice, messages and financial aid sent when the family needs it.

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For the HCP, distance therefore acts less as a rupture than as an adaptation. Family solidarity no longer rests solely on cohabitation or proximity, but on the ability to maintain the bond despite distance, through remote communications and forms of aid that remain possible.