Observatório da Emigração

Portuguese emigrants in Morroco, 1931-1936

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Céline do Livramento* e Carlota Moura Veiga**

Study on demographic, geographic and social characteristics of Portuguese emigration to Morocco between 1931 and 1936. During the 20th century, North Africa was recognized as a significant destination for Portuguese and Spanish emigrants. Morocco developped an attractive economy for labor migrations and became a refuge for people fleeing dictatorships in the Iberian Peninsula. However, this destination of Portuguese emigration has been marginally studied in the literature. Few studies analize the presence of Portuguese emigrants from the Algarve. The scarcity of information on the trajectory and possible plurality of origins of the emigrants motivated the preparation of this factsheet. To this end, a database was created with 309 consular registration cards of Portuguese residents in Morocco between 1931 and 1936. In this way, it is possible to identify the main migration routes to Morocco and to constitute a typology of the sociological profiles of Portuguese emigrants.

Series OEm Fact Sheets
Number 21
Date December 2025
Pages 33
ISNN   2183-4385
DOI  10.15847/CIESOEMFS201025
URI  http://hdl.handle.net/10071/35690
Keywords  Consular registration cards, migration route, Morocco, Portuguese emigration
Contents Portuguese emigration to Morocco. Demographic and geographical characteristics of emigration flows to Morocco, 1931–1936. Sociological profile of Portuguese emigrants in Morocco, 1931–1936. Note on the data. Metainformation. Bibliographical references.
Cite as  Do Livramento, Céline e Carlota Moura Veiga (2025), Emigrantes portugueses em Marrocos, 1931-1936”, OEm Fact Sheets, 21, Observatório da Emigração, CIES, Iscte, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. DOI: 10.15847/CIESOEMFS212025.

Graph 1 Records of Portuguese nationals in Morocco, 1931-1936

Source Graph by OEm, consular registration figures from the Tangier consulate, Book 6 (1931/1932), Book 9 (1933/1934), Book 13 (1936/1937). In-person consultation of books made available by the Archive and Library Division, Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

*Université Paris Dauphine, **Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-Iscte), Lisboa, Portugal

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