Becoming Diasporically Moroccan

Questions persist about post-migrant generations and their sense of belonging in one homeland or another. As descendants of migrants, `second' and further generations often struggle to establish an unproblematic belonging in/to a resident homeland, as the place where they live and work but are often [...]
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Questions persist about post-migrant generations and their sense of belonging in one homeland or another. As descendants of migrants, `second' and further generations often struggle to establish an unproblematic belonging in/to a resident homeland, as the place where they live and work but are often categorized as `outsiders'. Simultaneously, because of improving access to travel, they can also maintain a physical presence in an ancestral homeland. However, their encounters there may also problematize their sense of belonging. During their summertime visits to Morocco, the European-Moroccan participants in this ethnography repeatedly find themselves negotiating a sense of belonging in the `homeland'. This book analyzes how these negotiations take place in order to investigate how the categories of `diasporic' and `Moroccan' become shaped by the interactional encounters observed. In the setting of Morocco, where trajectories to and from Europe have colored several centuries of history, this book provides a framework to explore how migration and return become incorporated into contemporary `Moroccanness'.