Morocco wants to reinforce ties with migrants

Moroccan Minister of Moroccan communities abroad Ameur Mohammed said that Moroccan immigrants in Europe must work harder to secure their language and culture. But his statement Dutch politician has rubbed the wrong way.

It is beginning to affect the appearance of a trend. While European immigration minister stressed the need for migrants to integrate - and possibly even assimilate - politicians from their home countries underscore the need for immigrants to preserve their cultural identity. Last week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan sparked an outcry when he said that assimilation was nothing less than a crime against humanity. The Moroccan minister seems to have a page in his book.
Classes
In the French language newspaper Aujourd'hui le Maroc, Morocco Ameur minister recently revealed that the new migrants. "The Moroccan community abroad," he argued, should be considered in our country 17th Province. "The spearhead of the new policy is to ensure that more children in the classes of Moroccan descent in Moroccan culture and Arabic.

The Minister said that the number of children in those categories should be included in the next few years to double between 60000 and 150000th The government will also funds to give young people the trip to Morocco so they can bond with their home country.

Irritation
Ameur ministerial statements have caused considerable confusion in the Dutch politician. The conservative deputies Henk Kamp, said the Moroccan policy is diametrically opposed to the Dutch government is trying to further the integration of Moroccans in the Dutch society.

Labour MP Khadija Arib, even of Moroccan descent, believes that: "Moroccans in the Netherlands should focus on their lives here, so they can before". It calls on the Moroccan Minister of Policy old-fashioned. Ms. Arib argued that the Moroccan government should understand that the new generations have less of a strong bond with Morocco.

Berber language
Apart from the widespread sparks irritation on the Moroccan government interference, the plans have raised serious concerns in many Moroccan immigrants. Said bin Azouz from the Democratic Voice of Moroccans in the Netherlands, says that "In principle, there is nothing wrong with preserving its own language and culture, but the issue is the culture?

Mr. Bin Azouz argued that an open democratic Moroccan culture is not in contradiction with the integration, but the traditional, static culture, the Moroccan government is promoting. Also, the Moroccan government seems to have forgotten that 80 percent of the Moroccans in the Netherlands speak for the Berber languages. For them, Arabic is a second language, as well as the Dutch.

Money
Attempts by the Moroccan government to retain their hold on the migrant communities are nothing new, and again led to confusion. The Moroccan Government refuses to ensure that the migrants to enter their Moroccan nationality and tried to force migrants to choose names for their children from an officially approved list. A recently created advisory council of the Moroccan community abroad will also be considered with suspicion.

There is a reason why the Moroccan government wants to retain strong ties with its migrant communities. There are more than three million Moroccans in Europe, more than 10 percent of the total turnover of the Moroccan population. In addition to the tourism and phosphate mining, the money sent home that these migrants is the country's main source of foreign exchange.