Living Tangier (eBook)

Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City

Abdelmajid Hannoum (Autor)

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2019
312 Seiten
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
9780812296532 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the early 1990s, new migratory patterns have been emerging in the southern Mediterranean. Here, a large number of West Africans and young Moroccans, including minors, make daily attempts to cross to Europe. The Moroccan city of Tangier, because of its proximity to Spain, is one of the main gateways for this migratory movement. It has also become a magnet for middle- and working-class Europeans seeking a more comfortable life.

Based on extensive fieldwork, Living Tangier examines the dynamics of transnational migration in a major city of the Global South and studies African "illegal" migration to Europe and European "legal" migration to Morocco, looking at the itineraries of Europeans, West Africans, and Moroccan children and youth, their strategies for crossing, their motivations, their dreams, their hopes, and their everyday experiences. In the process, Abdelmajid Hannoum examines how Moroccan society has been affected by the flows of migrants from both West Africa and Europe, focusing on race relations and analyzing issues related to citizenship and social inequality. Living Tangier considers what makes the city one of the most attractive for migrants preparing to cross to Europe and illustrates not only how migrants live in the city but also how they live the city—how they experience it, encounter its people, and engage its culture, walk its streets, and participate in its events.

Reflecting on his own experiences and drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, Tayeb Saleh, Amin Maalouf, and Dany Laferrière, Hannoum provokes new questions in order to reconfigure migration as a postcolonial phenomenon and interrogate how Moroccan society responds to new cultural processes.

Autor

Abdelmajid Hannoum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He is the editor of Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa, and author of Violent Modernity: France in Algeria and Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine.

Inhalt

Introduction
Chapter 1. Revolution
Chapter 2. Migration, Space, and Children
Chapter 3. Burning Matters
Chapter 4. Transit "Illegality"
Chapter 5. Europeans in the City
Epilogue: Notes on the Migrant Condition

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Ethnography
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Ethnography
• Zusatzinfo: 14 illus.
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African politics • African Studies • Anthropology • Asian Studies • Border studies • Cultural Anthropology • ethnography • European Union laws against immigration • Europe European • EU treaties • ex-pat expat • Folklore • Geography • Globalization • globalization and migration • Harraga • Human Rights • illegal illegality • Illegal migration from Morocco to Europe • Law • Legal migration from Europe to Morocco • Linguistics • middle class working class Europeans • Middle Eastern Studies • Migrants • Migration • Mobility • Moroccan youth • Morocco Moroccan • noncitizen • Resident • sub-Saharan Africans • urban border studies
• ISBN-13: 9780812296532 / 9780812296532