“Being left behind” Gendered forced return migration, women’s agency and the NGO battle, the Moroccan case ...

‘Women left behind’ means in Morocco women with husbands who migrated to Europe or the Middle East. In Europe, ‘being left behind’ has another meaning: migrant women and youngsters, especially girls and children, living in Europe, being left behind in their country of origin by their husbands and fathers, particularly in summer holidays. The husband and father takes their passports and return papers and leaves Morocco back to the country of residence. In this paper we focus on this still unknown form of gendered forced return migration. Morocco is not the only country were women and youngsters... Mehr ...