In and out of Morocco : smuggling and migration in a frontier boomtown / David A. McMurray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMurray, David A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug traffic--Morocco--Nador (Province).

Drug traffic.

Smuggling--Morocco--Nador (Province).

Smuggling.

Immigrants--Morocco--Nador (Province)--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Nador (Morocco : Province)--Emigration and immigration.

Nador (Morocco : Province).

Nador (Morocco : Province)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

In & out of Morocco : smuggling and migration in a frontier boomtown

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects of the multiple linkages between Nador and international commodity circuits, and analyzes the profound effect on everyday life of the free flow of bodies, ideas, and commodities into and out of the region.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Lie of the Land 1

2. Working Abroad but Dreaming of Home: The Story of Haddou 20

3. Migrants as Pawns, Migrants as Pioneers 47

4. The Impact of Migration on Status Distinctions 64

5. Music, Migration, and the Nadori Diaspora 98

6. Nador's Smugglers and Border Theater 110

7. The Effects of Globalization on Contemporary Moroccan Culture 131.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8612-2

OCLC:

232157633