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In And Out Of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown
David McMurray
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Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, Illustrations, map. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
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 ... Read moreGroundbreaking 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. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816625079
SKU
V9780816625079
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About David McMurray
David A. McMurray is assistant professor of anthropology at Oregon State University.
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