Enquete aupres de migrants marocains expulses d'ltalie

Abstract FRE

The reception given by the family varies.

It's not the same, and depends on the people and the moment in time.

The immediate reaction at the time of return is that of relief at seeing their son alive, as there are a lot of stories going around the disappearance of migrants.

From this point of view, the reactions of mothers are more marked compared to those of fathers, even more when, if the parents are separated, the migrant chooses to go back to the mother first.

After a generally short period of time, recriminations and reproach towards the migrant for having failed to continue his migratory project, and for having wasted the precious economic resources his family invested in his leaving, and for having brought shame on the family because of his being put in prison and expelled.

The real reasons for the return of the emigrant are rarely divulged, and it's not certain that they correspond to those declared to us during the interviews, except to their own immediate family.

In this way, six of the migrants interviewed claimed they had said nothing to no-one, not even to their own family.

Twenty six migrants declared they had made the reasons for repatriation public, but out of these, twenty four had only told their immediate family.

This confession can be justified by the fact that, having to stay for a long time in Morocco - without resources and often without work - the migrant is,at least, obliged to reveal the reasons why he cannot go back to Italy to his own family.