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Enquête auprès de migrants marocains expulsés d'Italie

2015

Abstract

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...