Rebordering The Mediterranean : Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

SuA¡rez-Navaz, Liliana.

Series:

New Directions in Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--Spain--Granada (Province)--Social conditions.

Citizenship--Spain.

Granada (Spain : Province)--Social conditions.

Group identity--Spain--Granada (Province).

Immigrants--Spain--Granada (Province)--Social conditions.

Local Subjects:

Africans--Spain--Granada (Province)--Social conditions.

Citizenship--Spain.

Granada (Spain : Province)--Social conditions.

Group identity--Spain--Granada (Province).

Immigrants--Spain--Granada (Province)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2005.

Summary:

Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants have come in search of a better life. It draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork in Granada and Senegal, exploring the shifting, complementary and yet antagonistic relations between Spaniards and African immigrants in the Andalusian agrarian work place. The author's findings challenge the assumptio

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Peoples of Alfaya; Chapter 2: Contested Boundaries; Chapter 3: Putting Immigrants In Their Place; Chapter 4: The Symbolic And Political Manufacturing Of The Legitimation of Legality; Chapter 5: The Imagining Of Multicultural Convivencia In A Legally Bounded Social Space; Chapter 6: The Senegalese Transnational Social Space; Chapter 7: A New Convivencia?; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781782381907

1782381902