Emigrant dreams, immigrant borders : migrants, transnational encounters, and identity in Spain / Raquel Vega-Durán.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vega-Durán, Raquel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Spain--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Africans--Spain--Social conditions.

Africans.

Latin Americans--Spain--Social conditions.

Latin Americans.

Group identity--Spain.

Group identity.

Spain--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2016]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary book offers a fresh way to understand present-day Spain in relation to its African and Latin American migrants. It combines readings of a large range of cultural works with a clear understanding of political, historical, and social context, in order to rethink migrant identities, their complex cultural representations, and the transnational conceptions of Spain that emerge from the encounter with the foreigner. It offers new comprehensive theories on the border and the Other.

Contents:

Introduction : the migrant and the making of Spain

When we were "the other" : emigrant memories and immigration in Spain

Liminal paradoxes at and "in" the border : Ceuta, Melilla, and the Strait of Gibraltar

Stretching the border : Atlantic Ocean, airport customs, and other crossings

The "other" shore in contemporary Spanish cinema

Repopulating "Madre Patria" : transatlantic encounters inside Spain

Spain's integral diversity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-741-2

OCLC:

958518445