Introduction : interpretive engagement in Morocco and Mexico -- Discretionary state seeing : emigration policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963 -- Reaching out : beginning a conversation with Moroccan emigrants, 1963-1973 -- Relational awareness and controlling relationships : Moroccan state...

The impact that remittances – the monies that migrants send home – have on the development on migrant-sending economies is a matter of considerable debate. This essay presents the case of Morocco and its state-controlled bank, La Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP), to argue that the major...