Well-Being in Morocco

People do not strongly use the term well-being in the Moroccan Darija(informal language). It is a word that is used exclusively in institutional and academic contexts; the majority of people here in Morocco are not well aware of what well-being means as they are when we talk of concepts such as happiness, self-realization and social justice. This may be due to people's preoccupation with day-to-day needs. This is made clear through the daily activities that are achieved by the majority of people depending on traditional tools which make their income low and limited.

My long conversation with these interviewees about what well-being means to them has made us discuss other contexts that are important to them. For example, they start talking about the problems of marginalization, unemployment, social vulnerability, deprivation and instability. Thus, we are no longer looking for the meaning of wellbeing, but they lead me to find solutions to these problems which are mainly associated with intersectionality including employability and education, far from thinking actually of well-being. This is an important discussion that shows us that the path to well-being goes mainly through addressing all the problems associated with intersectionality (Gender problems, education, social vulnerability).

The majority of those interviewees about well-being have a middle-income job and a middle level of education; they all show their urgent desire to achieve other goals such as having a better job, a house, a family. Besides, they all express their need to overcome all problems they are facing, and they insist on looking for stability at all levels, economic, social, and psychological. As everyone here in Morocco is looking for stability, it might not be the case if we interviewed some rich men and women who have guaranteed at least their daily higher income though we live in the same country...