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Accessing Brill Products. Corporate Social Responsibility. Sales Contacts. Ordering from Brill. Editorial Contacts. Offices Worlwide. Course Adoption. Contact Form. Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco and its largest port. Before the French occupation of Morocco, Casablanca had been a town of 20, French urban policies in Casablanca, the construction of its new port and its designation as a commercial and administrative centre attracted both European and rural migrants to the city, which transformed its demographic composition.
By , it was a city of over , inhabitants; by , it was a metropolis of , people. Part of its growth was a result of European immigration; as the capital of French-occupied Morocco, the city attracted European administrators, businessmen, and settlers. The larger share of immigrants, however, came from the Moroccan countryside. Both Europeans and Jews left Morocco shortly after it achieved independence in The city, however, continued to grow and now has a population of more than 3.
Casablanca is an interesting case study of regulated prostitution. Like other French-colonized cities, it instituted regulated prostitution. In addition, however, for about three decades, from to , state-regulated prostitution was carried out in a walled-off brothel district called Bousbir, which is located a few kilometres to the southeast of the city. French administrators in Hanoi, Tunis, and Beirut saw it as a model for emulation, in part or in full.
Medical doctors and abolitionists in the metropole debated the pros and cons of regulation based on what they heard about Bousbir. For that reason we know much more about prostitution in protectorate Casablanca than in later periods. After that point in time, such detailed data on prostitution in Casablanca is less available.
