Study finds 82% of two million Moroccan immigrants live in EU countries

Almost 82% of two million Moroccan immigrants are settled in the European Union countries, says a joint study by Organization for international Migration (OIM) and the Hassan II foundation for Moroccans living abroad.

The study, an analysis of new tendencies of Moroccan migration in six European countries (Germany, Spain, France, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands), finds that the Moroccan community is the largest non-European foreign community in Belgium, Spain, and Italy while in France Moroccans are estimated at 800,000 persons.

The study, covering 80 to 87% of Moroccans settled abroad, will serve as an analysis tool for the Moroccan foundation to adopt more targeted and more efficient actions.

Other analyses covering other regions will be conducted to complete this first study. Anthropologists, academics, sociologists and statisticians from Morocco and the six EU countries took part in the study.