Burning at Europe's borders : an ethnography on the African migrant experience in Morocco / Isabella Alexander-Nathani.

Author
Alexander-Nathani, Isabella [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Description
xxxvi, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

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"This ethnography introduces students to the rapidly expanding and largely overlooked migrant and refugee crisis at Europe's southernmost borders in North Africa, examining how the physical and symbolic ritual of burning shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • The question of ethnography
  • At the crossroads : Africa on the map of human migrations
  • Colony, monarchy, Muslim democracy : Morocco as the new "destination" for African migrants
  • Vulnerability and the gendering of political status
  • Burning yesterday for tomorrow : images from the in between
  • "Le peril noir" : the racialization of political status
  • Where the story ends.
ISBN
  • 9780190074647 (paperback)
  • 0190074647 (paperback)
LCCN
2019035386
OCLC
1124776799
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