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Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Revolution
Chapter 2. Migration, Space, and Children
Chapter 3. Burning Matters
Chapter 4. Transit "Illegality"
Chapter 5. Europeans in the City
Epilogue: Notes on the Migrant Condition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Abdelmajid Hannoum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He is the editor of Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa, and author of Violent Modernity: France in Algeria and Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine.
Summary
Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city.
