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‘The World Upside Down’: The Rise of Spanish Immigration to Morocco

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By , Contributor / March 21, 2013 at 9:52 am EDT

Tangier, Morocco Marcos Martinez Bacelo does not know when he will be able to go home.It’s been six months since the 36-year-old mechanic came here from his hometown of Vigo, Spain to work as a mechanic. As he runs calloused fingers through his short black hair, peppered with gray, he lays out his circumstances: A year ago, he lost his job at an electric company in his home country. He eventually found another, but only six months later he faced a layoff at his new job.

In Morocco, Activists Struggle to Keep Protest Fervor Alive

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Moroccans labor activists march in protest on March 31, 2013.
(Abdeljalil Bounhar/AP) The Christian Science Monitor

By Maddy Crowell, Contributor / April 14, 2013 at 5:17 pm EDT

Rabat, Morocco
Avenue Mohammed V, a wide street that runs directly through Rabat’s centre-ville and past Morocco’s parliamentary headquarters, is the site of nearly daily protests against the country’s government.

Living in Morocco in late 2012, most days I saw the protesters tussle with the police, grow bored, and disperse, laughing over the chase like American children playing tag during recess.

But last November, I witnessed something different: hundreds of unsmiling protesters blocking both sides of the street, demanding government jobs in an economy with massive unemployment.

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