While most new arrivals of Moroccan origin in the province of Québec hold university degrees and are qualified in conformity with Canada’s and Québec’s policies of selective immigration, the majority encounter problems of professional insertion. On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in Morocco and Québec, this article aims to go beyond the apparent socioeconomic homogeneity of this national category of migrants to reveal its internal differentiation as well as the diversity of its strategies and migratory paths. The various types of migrant trajectories are the result of a dynamic between socioeconomic origins, familial and collective migratory history, societal mutations in Morocco, the closing of European borders, and Canada’s and Québec’s immigration policies. Furthermore, the theoretical and methodological perspective that has been adopted makes it possible to avoid the pitfall of “culturalizing” social issues and makes it clear that migratory paths and the strategies of social actors are situated in territories – plural – made of concrete political, cultural, social and economic relations.