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Subject(s)

• North Africans in motion pictures [Browse]
• North Africans in literature [Browse]
• Immigrants in motion pictures [Browse]
• Immigrants in literature [Browse]
• Emigration and immigration in motion pictures [Browse]
• Emigration and immigration in literature [Browse]
• Music—Mediterranean Region—History and criticism [Browse]

Summary note

Writing in the wake of the political and social uprisings known as the "Arab Spring" and the restrictive European immigration policies that followed, Hakim Abderrezak contests the common notion that emigrants from former European colonies migrate predominantly to the land of the ex-colonizer. Focusing particularly on clandestine migration practices, he shows that despite a linguistic affinity, a tradition of labor, and additional historical ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) are no longer trekking to France, but instead are drifting toward other destinations like Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and the Middle East. Abderrezak locates this migratory shift away from France in literary, cinematic, and musical representations of the emigrant's journey. Contrary to mass media coverage and mainstream political discourse, these cultural productions reveal new patterns of human movement and an alternative mapping of the Mediterranean.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2016).

ISBN

• 9780253020789 (electronic book)
• 0253020786 (electronic book)
• 0253020654
• 9780253020659

LCCN

2016021162

OCLC

948805409

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