Social Imaginaries of the Emigration of Young People from Tetouan in Vulnerable Situations
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Abstract
Contemporary migratory movements constitute one of the most decisive social phenomena for understanding current global dynamics. Although human displacement has historically been a constant, in recent decades international migration has intensified to become a structural component of social, economic, and symbolic life across broad regions of the world. In this context, mobility between the northern region of Morocco and Europe occupies a singular place. Geographic proximity, the history of flows, the centrality of the Hispano-Moroccan Ceuta and Melilla borders, and persistent deep economic inequalities have shaped a transit space and circulating imaginaries. Migration, in this context, is both a material fact and a symbolic construction that shapes desires, expectations, and decisions (De Haas, 2021; Carling & Collins, 2018).