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

McMurray, David Arthur

ISBN 10: 0816625077 / ISBN 13: 9780816625079

Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000

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Synopsis:

A revealing inquiry into how global culture is lived locally.

Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany descend 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 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 the Author:

David A. McMurray is assistant professor of anthropology at Oregon State University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: In and Out of Morocco : Smuggling and ...
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New