Anissa Maâ

Université Libre de Bruxelles | ULB · Institute of Sociology

This paper explores the idea of a “migrantisation” of borderwork through the case of peer intermediation in the provision of information to migrants regarding voluntary returns from Morocco. Under what conditions are people categorised as sub-Saharan migrants being employed in projects led by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)? What...

En s’appuyant sur des données récoltées durant des terrains de recherche ethnographiques conduits entre 2016 et 2018, cet article s’intéresse au rôle des intermédiaires issus des communautés migrantes dans la mise en œuvre des retours volontaires de l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) depuis le Maroc. L’article explore plus préc...

Migration information campaigns and awareness-raising activities are increasingly used by Western governments as a “soft” tool of border enforcement in countries of origin, transit, and destination. Acting upon perceptions and aspirations, these information provision initiatives aim at convincing (potential) migrants to remain in or “voluntarily” r...

The intricate relationship between border control and migrations is the core puzzle of this paper, which takes voluntary returns from Morocco as a case study and autonomy of migration (AoM) as a theoretical framework. More precisely, the paper examines voluntary returns from the perspective of migrants themselves to grasp border control through the...

Drawing on data collected during ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2016 and 2018, this article addresses the role of intermediaries from migrant communities in the implementation of voluntary returns run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from Morocco. The article explores the colonial legacies and contrasting effects of...

À travers l’observation ethnographique de trois espaces singuliers dans le nord du Maroc – une morgue, une « forêt » et un presbytère – l’article explore les articulations entre expérience migratoire et violence des frontières à partir de la perspective des migrants eux-mêmes. Il démontre que les migrants font l’expérience d’au moins trois formes d...

"Loving and Controlling Your Neighbour" ? Negotiated Entanglements of Compassionate and Security Rationales among Christian Confessional Actors in the Moroccan Migration Industry In Morocco, following the increasing settlement of migrants of sub-Saharan origin since the 2000s, faith-based organisations have been revitalised and religious actors ­ i...

Since the 1990s, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have been funding information and awareness-raising initiatives to deter irregular immigration. These programmes increasingly rely on the involvement of intermediaries with a migration background in so-called “peer-to-peer” information dissemination activities. Their “peerness” is consi...

Les « retours volontaires » mis en oeuvre par l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) sont une forme contemporaine d’éloignement qui a la particularité de s’appuyer sur la « volonté » des migrants eux-mêmes. Tandis que la littérature a largement souligné la dimension contrainte de cette « volonté », il convient cependant de s’interr...

Les « retours volontaires » mis en oeuvre par l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) sont une forme contemporaine d’éloignement qui a la particularité de s’appuyer sur la « volonté » des migrants eux-mêmes. Tandis que la littérature a largement souligné la dimension contrainte de cette « volonté », il convient cependant de s’interr...

In Morocco, the implementation of the ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ programmes (AVRR) run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) counts on the widespread collaboration of governmental and humanitarian migration practitioners and of migrants themselves. How come that actors occupying such heterogeneous positions in the...