Rebordering the Mediterranean (eBook)

Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

Liliana Suarez-Navaz (Autor)

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2004
280 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-190-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 assumption of fixed national, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries vis-vis outside migration in core countries, showing how legal and cultural identities of Andalusians are constructed together with that of immigrants.

Autor

Liliana Suárez-Navaz is Professor in the Social Anthropology Department at Autónoma University of Madrid.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction


Identities and Citizenship in the Andalusian Borderland

Modernity in the Making: The Reinscription of Difference in a Legally Bounded Space

Culture and Gender in Ethnographic Work


Chapter 1. Peoples of Alfaya: The Relocation of Peasants in Southern Europe


Peasants in Francoist Times

Rights and the Experience of Emigration

Irrigation, Intensive Labor, and the Autonomous Entrepreneur

Politics of Change: The Social Vision of the Village

The Price of Modernization: Loss of Autonomía in a Global Space

A New Relationship with the State

Alfaya in the Narratives of the Past: Inclusive versus Exclusive Criteria of Belonging

Summary and Preliminary Conclusions


Chapter 2. Contested Boundaries


Crossing Boundaries

The Making of a European Spain and Southern Immigrants

Enactment of the Alien Law

Andalusia’s Muslim Imagery

“Outsider” into “Foreigner”: The First Case of Enforcement of the LOE and Collective Resistance

Act 1: Hailing and Resistance

Act 2: Resistance to Expulsion and Nationalism That “Goes without Saying,"


Chapter 3. Putting Immigrants in Their Place


Landscapes of Inequality

Africans in Alfaya: “No Place to Stay,"

Sheltering the Homeless: Immigrants’ Place as a Right and an Arena for Consciousness-Building

Putting Immigrants in Their (Social) Place

Naturalizing Difference


Chapter 4. The Symbolic and Political Manufacturing of the Legitimation of Legality


Salir a la Luz: The 1991 Regularization Process

Immigrants as Administered Subjects and the Fetishism of Papers


Chapter 5. The Imagining of Multicultural Convivencia in a Legally Bounded Social Space


Integration: The Imagining of Cultural Antagonism and Multicultural Consent

Local Implementation of Social Programs in the Summer of 1994

The Politics of Invisibility: A Racial Geography of Labor Relations


Chapter 6. The Senegalese Transnational Social Space: Survival and Identity in the Interstices of State Reproduction and Global Economy


The Forging of a Modern National Tradition in Senegal: Black Islam, Peripheral State, and Global Capitalism

Tradition and Cosmopolitanism in Emigration: Reproduction and Change in Senegalese Society

Community in the Diaspora: The Construction of Granada as a Senegalese Place (1980–1995)

Strategies of Belonging and Structures of Power: The Challenge of a Transnational Social Space


Chapter 7. A New Convivencia? Belonging and Entitlement from the Margins


Convivencia and Citizenship from an Anthropological Perspective

Convivencia at Home: The Case of Zoheir and the Blanco Family

Work and Leisure: Rights as Workers, Respect as People

Immigrants as Collective Subjects in the Public Social Space: A New Convivencia in Granada?


Conclusion

Glossary
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Anthropology
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology (General), Sociology, Refugee and Migration Studies • General Anthropology
• ISBN-10: 1-78238-190-2 / 1782381902
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-190-7 / 9781782381907