In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown - Softcover

Mcmurray, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816625077 ISBN 13: 9780816625079

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000

Synopsis

Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects of the multiple linkages between Nador and international commodity circuits, and analyzes the profound effect on everyday life of the free flow of bodies, ideas, and commodities into and out of the region.

Combining immigration and population statistics with street-level ethnography, In and Out of Morocco covers a wide range of topics, including the origin and nature of immigrant nostalgia, the historical evolution of the music of migration in the region, and the influence of migrant wealth on the social distinctions in Nador.

Groundbreaking in its attention to the performative aspects of life in a smuggling border zone, the book also analyzes the way in which both migration and smuggling have affected local structures of feeling by contributing to the spread of hyperconsumption. The result is a rare and revealing inquiry into how the global culture is lived locally.

About this title

About the Author:

McMurray is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0816625077
• ISBN 13: 9780816625079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222