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Economic crisis: young French graduates try their luck in Morocco

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High unemployment, economic crisis, rampant gloom and doom...More and more French graduates are leaving their homeland behind to try their luck Morocco. Our reporter spent some time with these young people, who have emigrated in search of a better life on the other side of the Mediterranean.

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By Jean-Marie LEMAIRE / Rim MATHLOUTI

For several years now, Morocco has been a popular destination for French nationals. Today, approximately 55,000 of them live in the North African kingdom. While pensioners are discovering a better, cheaper life with year-round sunshine, young graduates eye career opportunities.

Young people looking for work are attracted by the economic vitality of Morocco. They have decided to try their luck outside of France, before or after gaining professional experience. The economic crisis, unemployment and the high cost of living at home are all factors that pushed them to become expatriates in a French-speaking country less than a three-hour flight from Paris.

Audrey, Aurore and Kevin have all moved to areas in Morocco where foreigners are in demand. A landscape gardener, an architect and an entrepreneur, they are gradually discovering the reality of Moroccan life. They know they are living in a traditional-yet-modern Muslim country. All of them have managed to find work and thereby boast a confidence that employers in Europe can no longer give them.

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Get used to it :) in 2000,

by Globalization - 02/01/2013 - 22:07

Get used to it :) in 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people and the dissemination of knowledge.

Henri H

by Anonyme - 05/09/2012 - 20:09

Perhaps, if all the Moroccans in France go back home, the French will find jobs in France.

Intellectual fallacy

by Anonyme - 22/08/2012 - 07:13

Morocco as a 'traditional yet-modern-Muslim country''? Why do we always have to glorify a country that is far from being modern. Morocco suffers from high poverty level and lack of resources. Unless you are a Bourgeois from Anfa in Casablanca, or unless you attended the American School of Rabat, no you are not a ''modern Moroccan'' but rather subject to the difficulties of life. The expansion of this Kingdom is only attractive to French expatriates who are hired at the expense of Moroccan professionals.

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