In And Out Of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown / Edition 1

by David Mcmurray

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816625079
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	06/26/2001
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

	Note on Transliteration	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
1.	The Lie of the Land	1
2.	Working Abroad but Dreaming of Home: The Story of Haddou	20
3.	Migrants as Pawns, Migrants as Pioneers	47
4.	The Impact of Migration on Status Distinctions	64
5.	Music, Migration, and the Nadori Diaspora	98
6.	Nador's Smugglers and Border Theater	110
7.	The Effects of Globalization on Contemporary Moroccan Culture	131
	Conclusion	148
	Notes	159
	Glossary	181
	Bibliography	185
	Index	193