Policy-Driven Migration Research? - A Systematic Literature Review of Migration in Morocco

Announcing the introduction of the African Migration Observatory in Rabat in December 2020, it states in its first sentence, “The shortcomings and scarcity of data on migration have limited the capacity of the African Union (AU) Member States to conceive coherent migration policies.”7 The second difficulty arises from the role of academics in the (re)production of (policy) categories, which does n. [...] In the context of migration, the Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families (MWC) is important.21 It was signed to protect the interests of Moroccan citizens living and working abroad rather than those of migrant workers residing on its soil (e.g. [...] We found one source explicitly dealing with reception of asylum seekers in Morocco (Lindstrom 2002), despite the fact that, first, in the 1990s, civil wars in West-Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) led to a significant increase in migration to the Maghreb countries, including Morocco;24 and, second, Morocco is a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention; its. [...] CNHD also presented this report in Geneva on 10 and 11 September 2013, at the 19th session of the Implementation Monitoring Committee of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members, to which Morocco was a signatory. [...] In January 2019, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union announced the establishment of the African Migration Observatory in Morocco’s capital Rabat.