The folklore and popular music that developed around emigration from Nador, Morocco to Western Europe from the 1950s to the1980s spoke to anxieties of separation; the travails of the crossing; and the difficulties of adjusting to migrant life abroad. From the 1990s to today themes have expanded to include the desire to marry a European Muslim as well as the difficulties of making it in newer southern Europe destinations now favored by Nadori emigrants. This presentation will focus on one popular narrative that combines elements of anxiety about separation with adoration for the successful migrant in Spain. Cross-generational conflicts and struggles between the old gender social order and the new intensify the strains caused by the pull of family back home versus the requirement that the young leave in order to succeed. The tale climaxes in a violent confrontation between the family patriarch and his migrant son, thus illuminating the contradictions at the heart of Nadori migration. The narrative is one of fifty migration narratives collected during seven months of anthropological fieldwork in Nador, Morocco in 2013.