Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs

In the framework of the emerging field of research on transnational migrant entrepreneurship at the crossroads of business and migration studies, the main purpose of this article is to assess the change of the Moroccan policy paradigm concerning their diaspora engagement policy, which has shifted fr...

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Autores: Zapata Barrero, Ricard, Hellgren, Zenia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/60619
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559997
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Transnationalism
Diaspora
Morocco
Entrepreneurs
Structure of opportunities
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spelling Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneursZapata Barrero, RicardHellgren, ZeniaTransnationalismDiasporaMoroccoEntrepreneursStructure of opportunitiesIn the framework of the emerging field of research on transnational migrant entrepreneurship at the crossroads of business and migration studies, the main purpose of this article is to assess the change of the Moroccan policy paradigm concerning their diaspora engagement policy, which has shifted from a guest-workers policy narrative (remittances based approach) to a transnational policy narrative (skills-mobilisation based approach) during the last decade. Once we have framed this process, we proceed to analyse the factors of success and failure of this new structure of opportunities for Moroccan transnational entrepreneurs. We have interviewed Moroccan migrant entrepreneurs in Morocco and Spain and stakeholders from different Moroccan institutions, and our findings indicate that there is a gap between the aims of the Moroccan engagement policy and the experiences of these Moroccan entrepreneurs. We argue that the Moroccan government has a too narrow view of transnationalism (only focused on return), a false identity premise (assuming that attraction towards Morocco can only be achieved by fostering a sense of ‘Moroccanness’ that appears to be far from reality), and a false socioeconomic premise that those that take this entrepreneurial route are motivated by opportunity rather than necessity.This work as supported by Research Executive Agency, Project Number 645471.Taylor & Francis202420242020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/60619http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559997reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2020;46(10):2027-44info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/645471© This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 7 Feb 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559997info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/606192026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
spellingShingle Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
Zapata Barrero, Ricard
Transnationalism
Diaspora
Morocco
Entrepreneurs
Structure of opportunities
title_short Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
title_full Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
title_fullStr Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
title_full_unstemmed Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
title_sort Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Zapata Barrero, Ricard
Hellgren, Zenia
author Zapata Barrero, Ricard
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Hellgren, Zenia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Transnationalism
Diaspora
Morocco
Entrepreneurs
Structure of opportunities
topic Transnationalism
Diaspora
Morocco
Entrepreneurs
Structure of opportunities
description In the framework of the emerging field of research on transnational migrant entrepreneurship at the crossroads of business and migration studies, the main purpose of this article is to assess the change of the Moroccan policy paradigm concerning their diaspora engagement policy, which has shifted from a guest-workers policy narrative (remittances based approach) to a transnational policy narrative (skills-mobilisation based approach) during the last decade. Once we have framed this process, we proceed to analyse the factors of success and failure of this new structure of opportunities for Moroccan transnational entrepreneurs. We have interviewed Moroccan migrant entrepreneurs in Morocco and Spain and stakeholders from different Moroccan institutions, and our findings indicate that there is a gap between the aims of the Moroccan engagement policy and the experiences of these Moroccan entrepreneurs. We argue that the Moroccan government has a too narrow view of transnationalism (only focused on return), a false identity premise (assuming that attraction towards Morocco can only be achieved by fostering a sense of ‘Moroccanness’ that appears to be far from reality), and a false socioeconomic premise that those that take this entrepreneurial route are motivated by opportunity rather than necessity.
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