Marrakech – Spain’s Moroccan community – now one of the country’s most structurally important migrant workforces – sits at the center of a deep contradiction and occupies an uneasy position. While it is indispensable in fields and food supply chains, the community disproportionately remains the most vulnerable group in the Spanish labor market.
That is the core message of a new analysis by Spain’s Elcano Royal Institute, published January 27 by researchers Carmen González Enríquez and José Pablo Martínez, the third in a series on immigrant labor integration.
Using Spain’s latest consolidated population statistics and Labor Force Survey microdata (EPA, Q4 2024), the report estimates that 1,524,788 African-born immigrants lived in Spain on January 1, 2024 – about 3% of Spain’s total residents and 17% of the foreign-born population.
But the decisive story is Morocco: Elcano notes that Moroccan migrati
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