A significant share of residents are considering migration: one-fifth of Egyptians, one-third of
Moroccans, and one-fourth of Tunisians.

Morocco is a country of immigration and professional emigration mainly to countries.
To this continent, work emigration began in 1909 with the recruitment of workers of the region of Souss-Massa for the Nantes sugar factories in France to know then a significant increase during and after the First and Second World Wars.

In Tunisia, the 2013 IOM Exploratory Study on Trafficking established the existence of
Tunisia of domestic and international trafficking for domestic servitude and forced labour.

Egypt has been a strong drive to migrate to seek job opportunities elsewhere since the 1970s. Most
Egyptian migrants work in Arab countries, followed by European countries, and to a lesser extent, the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Labour Migration is the movement of persons from one State to another, or within their own country of residence, for the purpose of employment.