Rebordering the Mediterranean : : Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe / / Liliana Suárez-Navaz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Suárez-Navaz, Liliana,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Anthropology ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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-à-vis outside migration in core countries, showing how legal and cultural identities of Andalusians are constructed together with that of immigrants.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Peoples of Alfaya: The Relocation of Peasants in Southern Europe -- 2. Contested Boundaries -- 3. Putting Immigrants in Their Place -- 4. The Symbolic and Political Manufacturing of the Legitimation of Legality -- 5. The Imagining of Multicultural Convivencia in a Legally Bounded Social Space -- 6. The Senegalese Transnational Social Space: Survival and Identity -- 7. A New Convivencia? Belonging and Entitlement from the Margins -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index