Rebordering the Mediterranean Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe [Hardcover]

Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants have come in search of a better life. It draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork in Granada and Senegal, exploring the shifting, complementary and yet antagonistic relations between Spaniards and African immigrants in the Andalusian agrarian work place. The author's findings challenge the assumption of fixed national, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries vis-?-vis outside migration in core countries, showing how legal and cultural identities of Andalusians are constructed together with that of immigrants.

Liliana Su?rez-Navazis Professor in the Social Anthropology Department at Aut?noma University of Madrid.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

• Identities and Citizenship in the Andalusian Borderland
• Modernity in the Making: The Reinscription of Difference in a Legally Bounded Space
• Culture and Gender in Ethnographic Work

Chapter 1. Peoples of Alfaya: The Relocation of Peasants in Southern Europe

• Peasants in Francoist Times
• Rights and the Experience of Emigration
• Irrigation, Intensive Labor, and the Autonomous Entrepreneur
• Politics of Change: The Social Vision of the Village
• The Price of Modernization: Loss ofAutonom?ain a Global Space
• A New Relationship with the State
• Alfaya in the Narratives of the Past: Inclusive versus Exclusive Criteria of Belonging
• Summary and Preliminary Conclusions

Chapter 2. Contested Boundaries

• Crossing Boundaries
• The Making of a European Spain and Southern Immigrants
• Enactment of the Alien Law
• Andalusias Muslim ImaglÃU