Emigrant dreams, immigrant borders : migrants, transnational encounters, and identity in Spain /
Vega-Durán, Raquel,
Emigrant dreams, immigrant borders : migrants, transnational encounters, and identity in Spain / Raquel Vega-Durán. - 1 online resource. - Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the migrant and the making of Spain -- When we were "the other" : emigrant memories and immigration in Spain -- Liminal paradoxes at and "in" the border : Ceuta, Melilla, and the Strait of Gibraltar -- Stretching the border : Atlantic Ocean, airport customs, and other crossings -- The "other" shore in contemporary Spanish cinema -- Repopulating "Madre Patria" : transatlantic encounters inside Spain -- Spain's integral diversity.
This interdisciplinary book offers a fresh way to understand present-day Spain in relation to its African and Latin American migrants. It combines readings of a large range of cultural works with a clear understanding of political, historical, and social context, in order to rethink migrant identities, their complex cultural representations, and the transnational conceptions of Spain that emerge from the encounter with the foreigner. It offers new comprehensive theories on the border and the Other.
9781611487411 (Electronic) 1611487412 (cloth : alk. paper)
954854 MIL
2016044221
Immigrants--Social conditions.--Spain
Africans--Social conditions.--Spain
Latin Americans--Social conditions.--Spain
Group identity--Spain.
Identité collective--Espagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Africans--Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Group identity.
Immigrants--Social conditions.
Latin Americans--Social conditions.
Spain--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Espagne--Émigration et immigration--Aspect social.
Spain.
Electronic books.
JV8252
305.9/069120946
Emigrant dreams, immigrant borders : migrants, transnational encounters, and identity in Spain / Raquel Vega-Durán. - 1 online resource. - Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the migrant and the making of Spain -- When we were "the other" : emigrant memories and immigration in Spain -- Liminal paradoxes at and "in" the border : Ceuta, Melilla, and the Strait of Gibraltar -- Stretching the border : Atlantic Ocean, airport customs, and other crossings -- The "other" shore in contemporary Spanish cinema -- Repopulating "Madre Patria" : transatlantic encounters inside Spain -- Spain's integral diversity.
This interdisciplinary book offers a fresh way to understand present-day Spain in relation to its African and Latin American migrants. It combines readings of a large range of cultural works with a clear understanding of political, historical, and social context, in order to rethink migrant identities, their complex cultural representations, and the transnational conceptions of Spain that emerge from the encounter with the foreigner. It offers new comprehensive theories on the border and the Other.
9781611487411 (Electronic) 1611487412 (cloth : alk. paper)
954854 MIL
2016044221
Immigrants--Social conditions.--Spain
Africans--Social conditions.--Spain
Latin Americans--Social conditions.--Spain
Group identity--Spain.
Identité collective--Espagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Africans--Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Group identity.
Immigrants--Social conditions.
Latin Americans--Social conditions.
Spain--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Espagne--Émigration et immigration--Aspect social.
Spain.
Electronic books.
JV8252
305.9/069120946