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The Moroccan diaspora (Arabic: الجالية المغربية), part of the wider Arab diaspora, consists of emigrants from Morocco and their descendants. An estimated five million Moroccans live abroad, [7] with the majority of the diaspora being located in Western Europe, especially France and Spain.
After the US provided food support to Morocco in the drought of 1957, [13] Hassan II agreed to accept a $100 per-capita bounty from the American Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which acted as a cover for Israeli emigration agents, [13] for each Jew who emigrated from Morocco—a total of $500,000 for the first 50,000 Moroccan Jews, followed by ...
The first large-scale exoduses took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. In these cases, over 90% of the Jewish population left, despite the necessity of leaving their assets and properties behind. [4] Between 1948 and 1951, 250,000 Jews immigrated to Israel from Arab countries. [5]
In the late 1970s, the group began conducting guerrilla warfare in Morocco and Mauritania, but Mauritania soon ceded its claim to the territory, leaving Morocco as the only state belligerent. [3] The war with Morocco caused about half of the Western Sahara's Sahrawi to flee the area, leaving a gap for Moroccan settlers to fill. [4]
After Morocco declared independence in 1956, most of the 225,000 Jews in Morocco emigrated to Israel, France and Canada. [18] In Algeria, the National Liberation Front fought and won independence from France in 1961. After Algeria won independence, the Jewish population of 140,000 began a massive and definitive exodus mainly to France due to ...
An excess of people entering a country is referred to as net immigration (e.g., 3.56 migrants/1,000 population). An excess of people leaving a country is referred to as net emigration (e.g., -9.26 migrants/1,000 population). The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change.
The Jewish community of Morocco spans nearly 2,000 years. On 14 May 1948 Sultan Muhammad V of Morocco delivered a speech in which he warned his country's Jews not to demonstrate "solidarity with the Zionist aggression," referring to the Declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel and the 1947–1949 Palestine war. [8]
The first McDonald's franchise on the African continent and in the Arab world opened on Ain Diab in 1992. [66] The city is now developing a tourism industry. Casablanca has become the economic and business capital of Morocco, while Rabat is the political capital.