Expanding the dimensions of Moroccan (Jewish) migration

Postcolonial perspectives from Venezuela

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3978611
AutoresAviad Moreno (0000-0002-2115-1006, Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume29
Fascículo3
Páginas527-554
Data de publicação2024-05-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2022.2088522
OpenAlexW4283727430
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas49

Analyses of the migrations from Morocco in the second half of the twentieth century tend to view them as part of a larger pattern of South-to-North postcolonial circular migration, while Jewish Moroccan migration is deemed an exceptional national phenomenon, unrelated to the study of these global developments. Yet, Jewish migration from northern Morocco to Venezuela was characterised and influenced by a number of sub-regional, ethno-religious, linguistic, and even racial peculiarities, whose analyses may broaden our perspective on the global dynamics of Moroccan postcolonial migration: for example, the status of northern Morocco and Venezuela as a hub for Spanish settlers, Venezuela's post-1945 open-door policy toward European immigration, and the Judeo-Spanish backgrounds of immigrants from Morocco. In the absence of bilateral migration agreements between Morocco and Venezuela, examining Moroccan Jewish migration to the latter can also shed light on the prominent role of informal networks in shaping global migration from North Africa, and explain why Muslim Moroccans did not immigrate to Venezuela even as many were migrating elsewhere. A focus on grassroots histories of this sort may help advance the scholarship beyond the narratives of mass minority departure, labour migration, and integration that usually treat Morocco and other countries of emigration as homogeneous national units

Development economics · Emigration · Ethnology · Geography · Grassroots · Immigration · Judaism · Mass migration · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History