Emigrant dreams, immigrant borders : migrants, transnational encounters, and identity in Spain / Raquel Vega-Durán.

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Vega-Durán, Raquel [author.]

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TextSeries: Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant BordersPublisher: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781611487411
1611487412

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Emigrant dreams, immigrant bordersDDC classification:

305.9/069120946 23

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JV8252

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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