PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

This work portrays the Moroccan diaspora community in Frankfurt, Germany and investigates the reactions to challenges in the diaspora, the structures of social network relations and the handling of experienced discriminations in everyday life. Methodologically it is based on stationary ethnographic fieldwork in Frankfurt and the Northern Moroccan Rif lasting fourteen months in total. Theoretically the study refers to assumptions on the interrelatedness of emigration and immigration, the detailed insights into personal embededness through social network analysis and the impacts of unfulfilled needs and experienced discriminations. Resulting in the fact that the struggles of migration, the character of social networks and experienced discriminations can lead to recollection, disinterest, retreat, segregation, illness and/or uprising it serves as a contribution to the research on the challenges any immigrant society needs to deal with.