The economic activities of sub-Saharan immigrants: informal sector and low wages

Redouane Madi,A Moumen,Mouhsine Idali,N Mejjad,Mourad Jabrane,H Slimani

doi:10.1051/shsconf/202111906001

Abstract

Immigration is a social phenomenon that leads to the immigrant’s sociological and economic reorganization, the immigrant often finds himself obliged to overcome the challenges of the economic integration into the host society. So, this study is an analysis of the economic activities of 102 sub-Saharan immigrants who live and work in the urban space of Rabat, and one semi-structured questionnaire is used to explores the specificities of the sectors of their economic activities. The results obtained confirm the findings of various authors affirming the recourse of immigrants to informal economic activity sectors generating low wages.

Highlights

Immigration -as the displacement of an individual or groups of individuals from one environment to another one- undoubtedly leads to psychological, sociological and cultural reorganization affecting the entire life of the immigrant who finds himself confronted with events that do not always seem to be in his favour
The observation of the socioeconomic circumstances of sub-Saharan immigrants residing in Morocco shows the emergence of findings related to the fragility of the economic activities
This study aims to analyse the factors influencing the occupation of lowincome economic activities by sub-Saharan immigrants

Summary

Introduction

Immigration -as the displacement of an individual or groups of individuals from one environment (place of origin) to another one- undoubtedly leads to psychological, sociological and cultural reorganization affecting the entire life of the immigrant who finds himself confronted with events that do not always seem to be in his favour. To ensure coverage of the entire urban territory of Rabat by the study, and taking into account the lack of statistical data relating to the number of sub-Saharan immigrants practising economic activities for each urban district of Rabat, the sampling is oriented towards the adoption of a sample of n = 102 sub-Saharan immigrants, divided from n = 17 for each of the six urban districts of Rabat, using network sampling.

Sectors of economic activity between the formal and the informal

Informal criteria of the economic activity sector

Findings

Economic activities carried out by sub-Saharan immigrants