In and out of morocco
...older, more prestigious families” Page 5. This illustrates the tensions that existed between the emigrants and the non-emigrants, these tensions existed simply beca use of two varying socioeconomic statuses that the emigrants and non-emigrants had. The toll that migration played on the families is an obvious one. The home in Nador took on the tradition role where men are the provider and the women stay in the home and take care of the domestic responsibilities. In chapter 2 you find out how important it was for Haddou to be the master of his house. “It [telephone] reinstated the migrant as master of the house, whether he was there or not…Haddou would call, day or night, to find out if his wife was there” page 28. This illustrates how important it was for the men to be the master of their homes, and it illustrates how hard it was for them to be a master while they were abroad. “Worrying about the well being and fidelity of the women back home occupied a good share of the migra nt’s time” page 28. These examples clearly describe the tensions the men and women had to deal with when the husbands were emigrants. As shown in chapter 4 the Nadori men do anything they can to seclude their wives. “Haddou, like many emigrants, enforced almost complete seclusion on his wife…he vented his frustration by harassing his family with non stop phone calls in which he told them what to instruct us to do” page 69. The Nadori men were frustrated with their absence from their families thus causing tension between the men and women. It was not only the men that were frustrated. The women were worried about being abandoned by the omitted husbands as stated in chapter 5, “The fear of abandonment and the problem of women's immobility as an expression of the anxieties caused by the massive out migration” page 101. There was also a lot of tension between the police and the emigrants. As stated in chapter 3, the European police used deceit and trickery to detour these men from migration. “The airport police [in Belgium] were all verbally instructed to detain able-bodied young men coming off the weekly flight from Oujda…When they couldn’t produce an amount of cash determined by the police to be sufficient, they were detained in the airport until the next flight back” page 57. This is an example of the role the government played in making the lives of the emigrant’s miserable and difficult thus creating tension between the government and the migrants. The experiences the men and women had through the 150 year migration period re...